1941 – Passenger ship Lurline sends radio signal of sighting Jap war fleet
1958 – 23rd Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 14-8 in Birmingham
1961 – John A McCone replaces Allen W Dulles as 6th director of CIA
1968 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono release their 1st album “Two Virgins” in UK
1987 – A Korean Air Boeing 707 explodes over the Thai-Burmese border, killing 115
2008 – 73rd Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 36-0 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama’s first win in the series in seven years
1832 – Louisa May Alcott, American author (Little Women), born in Germantown, Pennsylvania (d. 1888)
1917 – Merle Travis, Muhlenberg County KY, country singer (16 Tons) (d. 1983)
1933 – John Mayall, MacClesfield England, pop musician (Don’t Washed Me Time)
1951 – Barry Goudreau, rock guitarist (Boston), born in Boston, Massachusetts
1968 – Peter Gross-Pass, WLAF defensive linebacker (Rhein Fire)
1969 – J-Me Carney, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1577 – Cuthbert Mayne, English saint (b. 1543)
1954 – Dink Johnson, American musician (b. 1892)
1957 – Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Austria/US composer (Kathrin), dies at 60
1978 – Alan Richardson, composer, dies at 74
1986 – Cary Grant, British-born American actor (‘Charade,’ ‘North by Northwest’), dies in Davenport Iowa at 82
2001 – John Knowles, American author (b. 1926)