1967 – Julia Roberts
1955 – Bill Gates

1949 – Bruce Jenner

1943 – Randy Newman

1914 – Jonas Salk

2011 Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater reopens after a six-year renovation, restoring it to it’s pre-Soviet opulence
2011 The U.S. celebrates the 125th anniversary of the dedication of the New York City Statue of Liberty
2010 A court settlement determines Verizon must pay $25 million to the U.S. Treasury for overcharging 15 million cell phone customers
2010 In a dispute over the use of rare earth metals, China cancels a meeting with Japan and South Korea
1997 NBA announces hiring of Dee Kantner and Violet Palmer as 1st women to officiate a major-league all-male sports league
1996 Goa upset Karnataka to win their 1st Ranji Cricket Trophy game ever
1995 Atlanta Braves beat Cleveland Indians in 6 games in World Series
1995 Horse Racing Breeders’ Cup Champs: Cigar, Desert Stormer, Inside Information, My Flag, Northern Spur, Ridgewood Pearl, Unbridled’s Song
1994 Japanese space probe Sakigake passes Earth for 3rd time
1993 Cleveland Metroparks lease Brookside Park from Cleveland for 99-years
1993 Dutch Antilles government of Liberia-Peters resigns
1992 Lee Jang Rim predicts that today would be the end of the world!
1989 Oakland A’s sweep San Francisco Giants in earthquake/BART series
1988 Jurors award $147,000 to Tacoma parishioner seduced by her minister
1988 Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen gives $10 million to University Washington library
1986 KOB-AM in Albuquerque New Mexico changes call letters to KKOB
1986 KOB-TV in Albuquerque NM’s final transmission
1985 Ravi Ratnayeke takes 8-83 for Sri Lanka vs. Pakistan
1984 14th New York City Women’s Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:29:30
1984 15th New York City Marathon won by Orlando Pizzolato in 2:14:53
1984 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Nichirei Cup Team Match Golf Tournament
1982 NASA launches RCA-E
1982 Spain’s socialists win/communists lose elections
1981 Edward M McIntrye elected 1st black mayor of Augusta Georgia
1981 New York Yankee George Frazier loses 3 World Series games
1979 Dick Howser (best Yank manager win-lost percentage .636) replaces Billy Martin
1979 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1978 Don Ritchie runs world record 100k (6:10:20)
1976 Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (New York Yankees)
1976 Train collision at Goes, Netherlands, 7 die
1975 Calvin Murphy (Houston) begins NBA free throw streak of 58 games
1975 Cleveland Metroparks assume operating responsibilities for Zoo
1974 1st time 2 Islanders hat trick in same game-MacMillian and Westfall
1974 Luna 23 launched (landing on Moon)
1974 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 Elmore Smith of Lakers blocks 17 shots in a game (NBA record)
1973 Sharon Miller wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open
1972 “Mother Earth” closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 12 performances
1971 England becomes 6th nation to have a satellite (Prospero) in orbit
1971 John and Yoko record “Happy Xmas (War is Over)” in New York City
1970 NBA Cleveland Cavaliers 1st home game, lose to San Diego 110-99
1970 US/U.S.S.R. sign an agreement to discuss joint space efforts
1966 Belgium’s Gaston Roelants runs 12-4/5 miles in 1 hour
1965 630 foot high Gateway Arch completed in St. Louis
1965 Pope Paul VI proclaims Jews not collectively guilty for crucifixion
1962 Khrushchev orders withdrawal of missiles from Cuba, ending crisis
1962 New York Giant YA Tittle passes for 7 touchdowns vs Washington Redskins (49-34)
1962 Radio Moscow reports nuclear missiles in Cuba deactivated
1962 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1961 “Fiorello!” closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 796 performances
1961 Ground broken for Municipal (Shea) Stadium for New York Mets
1959 Buffalo Bills enter AFL
1959 Jean Genet’s “Les Nigres,” premieres in Paris
1958 Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, elected Pope, taking name John XXIII
1958 Pete Runnels wins Comeback Player of Year (avg went from .230 to .322)
1957 WMVS TV channel 10 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (PBS) begins broadcasting
1956 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Luctuosissimi eventus
1955 Egypt and Saudi-Arabia sign defense treaty
1954 Ernest Hemingway wins Nobel prize for literature
1954 Major league owners vote down sale of A’s to a Philadelphia syndicate
1954 N Richard Nash’ “Rainmaker,” premieres in New York City
1954 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Ernest Hemingway
1953 Bud Grant of Winnipeg Blue Bombers intercepts 5 passes (record)
1953 Red Barber, resigns as Dodger sportscaster to join Yankees
1952 Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Women’s Texas Golf Open
1951 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1949 Eugenie Anderson is 1st woman U.S. ambassador
1949 Georges Bidault elected president of France
1948 Flag of Israel is adopted
1946 German rocket engineers begin work in U.S.S.R.
1944 Russia and Bulgaria sign weapon pact
1943 U-220 sinks
1942 6th day battle at El Alamein: British offensive under Montgomery
1942 Train crashes into bus, killing 16 and injuring 20 (Detroit Michigan)
1940 Greece successfully resists Italy’s attack
1940 Meeting between Hitler and Mussolini in Florence
1939 Anti-German demonstrations/strikes in Czechoslovakia
1939 Spitfire shoots German Heinkel-111 down above Scotland
1938 Farewell parade of International Brigade (Barcelona)
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt rededicates Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary
1935 Sidney Kingsley’s “Dead End,” premieres in New York City
1934 Brooklyn and Pittsburgh play a penalty free NFL game
1929 Dow Jones plummets 38.33 pts (13%) to 260.64
1928 Bradman scores 131 NSW vs. Queensland, 212 minutes, 14 fours
1928 Indonesian child laws enfoced in Bahasa Indonesia
1927 Josip Broz (Tito) begins 7 months jail sentence in Croatia
1927 KLM-plane “Homing Pigeon” leaves Netherlands-Indies after 1st regular flight
1924 French-Russian trade agreement signed
1924 White Sox beat New York Giants 8-4 in Dublin, less than 20 fans attend
1922 1st coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a football game
1922 Benito Mussolini takes control of Italy’s government
1921 Amsterdam’s Tuschinski movie theater opens
1919 Volstead Act passed by Congress, start prohibition over Wilson’s veto
1918 Czechoslovakia gains independence as Austria-Hungary breaks up
1915 Richard Strauss’ Alpensymfonie, premieres in Berlin
1914 German battle cruiser Goeben enters Black Sea
1914 Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, founded at Howard University, incorporates

Brainy History is a fantastic source for history details.