1923 – Firestone Tire and Rubber Company starts producing inflatable tires
1952 – 106th Grand National: Arthur P. Thompson aboard Teal wins
1970 – WSNS TV channel 44 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting
1971 – Fran Phipps is 1st woman to reach North Pole
1974 – World Trade Center, then the world’s tallest building, opens in New York (110 stories)
1992 – Wrestlemania VIII, 62,167 at Hoosier Dome, Hulk Hogan DQs Sid Justice
1692 – Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (d. 1730)
1856 – Booker T. Washington, American education pioneer and 1st African American on a US stamp, born in Hale’s Ford, Virginia (d. 1915)
1964 – Christopher “Kid” Reid, American rapper (Kid ‘n Play)
1973 – Pharrell Williams, American music producer (The Neptunes), born in Virginia Beach, Virginia
1975 – Nikki Dryden, 800m swimmer (Olympics-6th-92, 96), born in Calgary, Alberta
1978 – Franziska van Almsick, German swimmer
1258 – Julian of Cornillon/Liege, Flemish visionary/saint, dies
1605 – Adam Loftus, English Protestant archbishop in Ireland (c.1513)
1907 – Anton G van Hamel, founder (Roman philosphy in Neth), dies at 65
1986 – Manly Wade Wellman, sci-fi author (Devil’s Planet), dies at 82
2004 – Sławomir Rawicz, Polish soldier (b. 1915)
2008 – Charlton Heston, American actor (The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur), dies at 84