1587: A second group of English settlers arrive off the coast of North Carolina to re-establish the colony of Roanoke. They would also disappear under mysterious circumstances.
1793: Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first European to complete a transcontinental crossing north of Mexico.
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1796: Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio "Cleveland" after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party.
1849: Emma Lazarus is born. She wrote the sonnet The New Colossus, which appears on the base of the Statue of Liberty.Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,1864: Outside of Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill.
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
1882: Edward Hopper is born. He painted the iconic Nighthawks. Hopper started painting it immediately after Pearl Harbor and tried to capture the gloomy feeling that he felt had settled over the country.
1889: James Whale is born. He directed such early horror classics as Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, and The Invisible Man.
1890: Rose Kennedy is born.
1933: Wiley Post becomes first person to fly solo around the world traveling 15,596 miles in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.
1934: Outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.1934: Louise Fletcher is born. She played the wicked Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (the movie version) and the even more wicked Kai Winn on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
1936: Tom Robbins is born.
1937: The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.1938: Terence Stamp is born. He played General Zod in the Superman movies.
1940: Alex Trebek is born.
1940: George Clinton, of Parliament, Funkadellic, the P-Funk All Stars and Royal Funkmaster of the Known Universe is born.
1942: The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands.
1942: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins.1943: American forces under Patton capture Palermo, Sicily.
1943: Bobby Sherman is born.
1946: Danny Glover is born.
1947: Albert Brooks is born.
1947: Don Henley is born.
1955: Willem Dafoe is born. Only his mama gets to call him "William."
1964: David Spade is born.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.
