Mental Coffee

Events
1759 – George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis.
1781 – American Revolutionary War: Richmond, Virginia, is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold.
1846 – The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom.
1854 – The San Francisco steamer sinks, killing 300 people.
1889 – Preston North End is declared winner of the original football league.
1896 – An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Roentgen has discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays.
1900 – Irish leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule.
1909 – Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama.
1911 – Kappa Alpha Psi, the Worlds second oldest and largest black fraternity is founded at Indiana University.
1912 – The Prague Party Conference takes place.
1914 – The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day’s labor.
1925 – Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female governor in the United States.
1933 – Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.
1940 – FM radio is demonstrated to the Federal Communications Commission for the first time.
1944 – The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper.
1945 – The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland.
1972 – U.S. President Richard Nixon orders the development of a space shuttle program.
1974 – An earthquake in Lima, Peru, kills six people, and damages hundreds of houses.
1974 – Warmest reliably measured temperature in Antarctica of +59°F (+15°C) recorded at Vanda Station
1993 – The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands, spilling 84,700 tons of crude oil.
1993 – Washington state executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the last legal hanging in America).
1996 – Hamas bombmaker Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone.
2005 – Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system, is discovered by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz using images originally taken on October 21, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory.

Births
1950 – Chris Stein, American guitarist (Blondie)
1953 – Steve Archer, American singer (The Archers)
1953 – Pamela Sue Martin, American actress
1953 – George Tenet, American CIA director
1954 – Alex English, American basketball player
1959 – Clancy Brown, American actor
1962 – Danny Jackson, American baseball player
1963 – Jeff Fassero, American baseball player
1964 – Grant Young, American drummer (Soul Asylum)
1966 – Kate Schellenbach, American drummer (Luscious Jackson)
1967 – Joe Flanigan, American actor
1968 – Ricky Paull Goldin, American actor
1968 – Carrie Ann Inaba, American dancer and choreographer
1969 – Marilyn Manson, American singer
1975 – Bradley Cooper, American actor
1975 – Warrick Dunn, American football player
1975 – Mike Grier, American ice hockey player
1976 – Matt Wachter, American bassist (30 Seconds to Mars)
1978 – January Jones, American actress
1978 – Sabrina Harman, American military figure and accused torturer
1980 – Bennie Joppru, American football player
1981 – Brooklyn Sudano, American actress
1983 – Sean Dockery, American basketball player
1984 – Amanda Hearst, American heiress and model
1986 – J. P. Arencibia, American baseball player
1987 – Kristin Cavallari, American actress
1999 – Marc Yu, American musician

Deaths
1954 – Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player (b. 1891)
1963 – Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player (b. 1896)
1970 – Max Born, German physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1882)
1976 – Mal Evans, Beatles’ “roadie” (b. 1935)
1978 – Wyatt Cooper, American screenwriter (b. 1927)
1979 – Charles Mingus, American musician (b. 1922)
1981 – Harold C. Urey, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1893)
1982 – Hans Conried, American actor (b. 1917)
1982 – Harvey Lembeck, American actor (b. 1923)
1985 – Robert L. Surtees, American Oscar-winning cinematographer (Ben-Hur) (b. 1906)
1988 – Pete Maravich, American basketball player (b. 1947)
1990 – Arthur Kennedy, American actor (b. 1914)
1994 – Tip O’Neill, American politician (b. 1912)
1996 – Lincoln Kirstein, American writer, impresario, art connoisseur (b. 1907)
1997 – Burton Lane, American composer and lyricist (b. 1912)
1998 – Sonny Bono, American entertainer and politician (b. 1935)
1998 – Ken Forssi, American musician (Love) (b. 1943)
2001 – Nancy Parsons, American actress (b. 1942)
2003 – Jean Kerr, American author (b. 1923)
2004 – Tug McGraw, American baseball player, father of Tim McGraw (b. 1944)
2004 – Norman Heatley, member of the team of Oxford University scientists who developed penicillin (b. 1911)
2005 – Danny Sugerman, American music manager (The Doors) (b. 1954)
2007 – Chih Ree Sun, Chinese-American physicist and poet (b. 1923)
2009 – Ned Tanen, American movie executive (b. 1931)
2010 – Rory Markas, Angels baseball announcer (b.1955)