John Williams, US film score writer; 'Jaws' & 'Indiana Jones'
1931
James Dean, American film actor ('Rebel Without A Cause')
1925
Jack Lemmon, Veteran American film actor
1920
Lana Turner, American film actress
1828
Jules Verne, French author of '20,000 Leagues Under The Sea'
1820
William Sherman, US general whom the 'Sherman Tank' was named after
1819
John Ruskin, English writer and artist
Events:
1994
Los Angeles, after an earthqauke & fires, was struk by flooding & mud slides
1984
British peacekeeping troops left the Lebanon
1974
The US spacestation, Skylab, crashed back to Earth, breaking up in the atmosphere
1969
The first test flight of the Boeing 747, Jumbo jet, took place
1955
Marshall Bulganin became the Soviet Prime Minister & 1st Secretary of the Communist Party
1924
The gas chamber was used for the first time in an American state prison
1886
A protest march in Trafalgar Square, by unemployed, ended in riots and looting
1725
Catherine the Great became the Empress of Russia
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