Today in History

• 1893 Spring Byington
• 1905 Jean Arthur
• 1915 Arthur Miller, playwright (Death of a Salesman, The Crucible)
• 1919 Rita Hayworth, actress, Alzheimer's victim
• 1920 Montgomery Clift
• 1921 Tom Poston
• 1930 Jimmy Breslin
• 1938 Robert 'Evel' Knievel, motorcycle daredevil
• 1938 Evel Knievel
• 1948 George Wendt
• 1948 Margot Kidder
• 1950 Howard Rollins
• 1971 Chris Kirkpatrick

• 1492 Columbus sights the isle of San Salvador.
• 1777 British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga, NY
• 1781 Cornwallis defeated at Yorktown.
• 1919 the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), is created.
• 1931 Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years in prison for tax evasion.
• 1933 Albert Einstein arrives in the US, a refugee from Nazi Germany.
• 1941 1st American destroyer torpedoed in WW II, USS Kearny off Iceland
• 1973 The Arab oil embargo begins. It will last until March, 1974.
• 1977 West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa plane in Mogadishu Somalia, freeing 86 hostages & kill three of the four hijackers.
• 1985 Intel 80386DX addresses 4 gigabytes of memory.
• 1989 Destructive 7.1 earthquake strikes Northern California.
• 2003 Tappei 101 becomes world's talest building with the addition of a 60m spire.