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1865
Mary Surratt and three other conspirators were hanged for complicity in the Lincoln assassination.
1887
Russian artist Marc Chagall born in Vitebsk, Belarus.
1899
Movie Director George Cukor (The Philadelphia Story) born in New York City.
1902
Italian film director Vittorio De Sica born in Sora, Italy.
1906
Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Satchel Paige born in Mobile, Alabama.
1907
Science fiction writer, Robert A. Heinlein (Stranger in a Strange Land) born in Butler, Missouri.
1913
Blues pianist Pinetop Perkins born in Belzoni, Mississippi.
1940
Beatle Ringo Starr born in Liverpool, England.
1954
Elvis Presley makes his radio debut when WHBQ Memphis played his record "That's All Right."
