Birthdays: Roman Emperor Theodosius I, Alexander Hamilton, Gliere, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Harry Selfridge, the London department store guy, Rod Taylor, David Wolper, Lyle Lovett, Ben Crenshaw, Naomi Judd, Joan Baez, Stanley Tucci, Disney animator Prez Romanillos, Amanda Peet is 48
1892- French impressionist painter Paul Gaughin, aged 46, married a 13 year old Tahitian girl named Tehura.
1948- President Harry Truman called for the creation of free, two-year community colleges for all those who desired a college education.
1949- The first recorded snowfall in Los Angeles.
1963- A record was released in Britain called “Please, Please Me” recorded by a working class rock & roll band from Liverpool called The Beatles. It was their first hit.
1995- Warner Bros purchased a dozen metromedia television stations around the US and this day started them off as the WB Network, today called the CW.
1999- John Stewart became the anchor of the Daily Show on Comedy Central.
2004- Harvard students Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, registered the domain name Facebook.com. It originally was a way to rate female students they knew “hot or not”.
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