1783 ~ Birthday of Washington Irving, Author (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle).

1829 ~ James Carrington, sometimes called “Saint Carrington” patented the coffee mill.

1888 ~ Birthday of Ma Rainey, the "Mother of the Blues".

1924 ~ Birthday of Marlon Brando, Actor (Streetcar Named Desire, On The Waterfront, The Godfather, Last Tango in Paris).

1930 ~ Birthday of Helmut Kohl, last Chancellor of West Germany & first Chancellor of the reunified Germany.

1934 ~ Birthday of Jane Goodall , Ethologist.

1936 ~ Richard Hauptmann executed for the kidnapping and death of the son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh.

1946 ~ Lt. General Masaharu Homma, the Japanese commander responsible for the Bataan Death March was executed.

1973 ~ The first portable phone call was placed by inventor Martin Cooper.

1989 ~ Pepsi dismissed Madonna as a spokesperson after her "Like a Prayer" video was called "blasphemous" by the Vatican.

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