1944 – 600+ 8th Air Force bombers attack Berlin
1969 – 31st NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Purdue 92-72 UCLA wins its 5th national championship in 6 years
1971 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1986 – Heart’s “These Dreams” single goes #1
1986 – HBO launches boxing’s heavyweight-title-unification-tournament
1992 – Danielle Ammaccapane wins Standard Register Ping Golf Championship
1819 – William Wirt Adams, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1888)
1868 – Robert A. Millikan, American physicist (photoelectric effect; Nobel 1923), born in Morrison, Illinois (d. 1953)
1885 – Jakabs Medins, composer
1926 – Julius Marmur, biochemist/geneticist
1949 – Brian Hanrahan, British TV newsman (BBC)
1959 – Carlton Cuse, Mexican-born American TV writer and executive
1471 – George van Podiebrad, king of Bohemia (1458-71), dies
1906 – Martin Wegelius, Finnish musicologist/composer, dies at 59
1929 – Anton Beer-Walbrun, composer, dies at 64
1945 – J Postuma, Dutch resistance fighter, dies
1969 – Ernst Deutsch, [Dorian], Czech actor (3rd Man, Golem), dies at 78
1971 – Martin Bodmer, writer, dies