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1048
Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet Omar Khayyám born in Nishapur, Khorasan.
1152
Henry II of England marries Eleanor of Aquitaine.
1822
Photographer Mathew Brady born in Warren County, New York.
1872
Mathematician, historian, and philosopher, Bertrand Russell born in Trellech, Wales.
1883
Architect Walter Gropius born in Berlin.
He was the founder of the art school called Bauhaus which combined crafts and fine art.
1888
The first recital by DeWolf Hopper of the classic American baseball poem, Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer , occurs in a New York Theatre
1897
Director Frank Capra (It's a Wonderful Life) born in Bisacquino, Sicily, Italy.
1902
Composer Meredith Willson (The Music Man) born in Mason City, Iowa.
1911
Blues singer Big Joe Turner (Shake, Rattle, and Roll) born in Kansas City, Missouri.
1920 
Karl Wojtyla aka Pope John Paul II born in Wadowice, Poland.
1926
Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears while visiting a Venice, California beach.
Authorities believe that radio announcer Kenneth Ormiston, a friend of McPherson, who also had vanished, had set up a "love nest".
After 32 days McPherson stumbles out of the desert in Agua Prieta, Mexico, just across the border from Douglas, Arizona.
1927
Bath, Michigan School Disaster.
Andrew Kehoe, seeking revenge against the community for taxes imposed on his farm to pay for a new school, sets off a TNT bomb in the school, killing 43 people, including 39 grade-school children.
Actress Norma Talmadge makes the first footprints outside Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
1934
Actor Dwayne Hickman (The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis) born in Los Angeles.
1946
Baseball Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson born in Wyncote, Pennsylvania.
1964
The Animals record The House of the Rising Sun in London.
