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1547
Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes (Don Quixote) born.
1907
Gene Autry, “the Singing Cowboy” was born near Tioga, Texas.
1912
Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni (Blow-up) born in Ferrara, Italy.
1931
Swedish film star Anita Ekberg (La Dolce Vita) was born in Malmø, Sweden.
1935
Singer Jerry Lee Lewis born in Ferridy, Louisiana, in 1935.
1982
A national scare began when it was discovered that some bottles of the pain-killer Tylenol on the counter shelves had been tampered with and contained lethal doses of cyanide.
2008
The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history.
