1703 ~ Tsar Peter the Great founded the city of Saint Petersburg.

1794 ~ Birthday of Cornelius Vanderbilt, Entrepreneur.

1907 ~ Birthday of Rachel Carson, Author.

1907 ~ A Bubonic plague outbreak began in San Francisco, California.

1911 ~ Birthday of Vincent Price, Actor.

1923 ~ Birthday of Henry Kissinger, American diplomat and recipient of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Peace.

1934 ~ Birthday of Harlan Ellison, science fiction Author.

1941 ~ German pocket battleship Bismarck was sunk in the North Atlantic killing 2,300.

1968 ~ George W. Bush enlisted in the Texas Air National Guard.

1972 ~ Presidents Leonid Brezhnev and Richard Nixon signed the SALT I agreements

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