1853: Bat Masterson, gunfighter, is born.
1859: Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.1863: The Battle of Lookout Mountain takes place near Chattanooga, Tennessee. Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.
1916: Forry Ackerman is born. He is the founder of Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine and runs a massive museum in Hollywood. Giving him a walk on part is almost required for low-budget B monster pictures.
1916: Irwin Allen, creator of the modern disaster picture is born. Here's the trailer for The Towering Inferno.1925: Conservative lion, William F. Buckley, Jr. is born.
1932: In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.1941: Pete Best is born.
1942: Billy Connolly is born.1947: Dwight Schultz is born. He played "Howlin' Mad" Murdock on The A-Team and the solcially awkard Lt. Reginald Barclay on Star Trek: The Next Generation. I always liked Barclay, because he wasn't one of these perfect 24th Century Star Trek characters.
1957: Denise Crosby is born. She played the doomed Lt. Tasha Yar on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
1960: Amanda Wyss is born. She played Beth, the cheatin' girlfriend in the movie Better Off Dead and also Woody's Indiana girlfriend on Cheers.
1963: Lee Harvey Oswald is assassinated by Jack Ruby in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters on live television.
1971: During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (AKA D.B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money - neither he nor the money have ever been found.
1978: Katherine Heigl 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.
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