1493: Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.
1672: Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence, which isn't nearly as fun as it sounds, but it did attempt to extend religious liberty to Protestant nonconformists.
1767: Andrew Jackson is born.
1776: South Carolina becomes the first colony to declare its independence from England.
1783: In an emotional speech, George Washington asks his officers not to join the Newburgh Conspiracy and defuses a coup d'etat.
1820: Maine becomes the 23rd state.
1915: Joe E. Ross is born. He played Officer Gunther Toody on Car 54, Where Are You? "Ooh! Ooh!"
1919: Lawrence Tierney is born. He acted steadily since the 40's but I remember his best as Joe Cabot in Reservoir Dogs. 
1916: President Woodrow Wilson sends 13,000 troops over the US-Mexican border to pursue Pancho Villa.1917: Tsar Nicholas II abdicates the throne and his brother becomes Tsar.
1919: The American Legion is formed in Paris.
1932: Alan Bean is born. He was the fourth man to walk on the moon.
1935: Judd Hirsch is born.
1943: David Cronenberg is born. He makes horror films that really follow you around for a few days afterward like The Brood and Dead Ringers.
1944: Sly Stone of Sly and the Family Stone is born.1947: Slide guitar virtuoso Ry Cooder is born.
1955: Dee Snider, of Twisted Sister, is born.
1959: Renny Harlin is born. He directed such cheese-fests as Cutthroat Island and Deep Blue Sea.
1962: Bret Michaels, of Poison, is born.
Don't cry, emo kid!1985: The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com).
Today in History elements mostly cribbed from The History Channel, Wikipedia, The New York Times, The Jewish World Review, The Writer's Almanac and anything else I can dig up.
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