In 1806, Thomas Jefferson's daughter, Martha, gave birth to James Madison Randolph, the first child born in the White House.
In 1945, Soviet and Polish forces liberated Warsaw from the Nazis. That same day, Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis, disappeared in Hungary while in Soviet custody.
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Ballerina actress Moira Shearer (1925)
Hair stylist Vidal Sassoon (1927)
Actor James Earl Jones (1931)
Actress Sheree North (1932)
Ventriloquist Shari Lewis (1933)
Former heavy-weight boxing champion Muhammad Ali
(1941)
Former heavywight boxing champion Joe Frazier (1943)
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"If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much."
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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, alias "Lewis Carroll," English author (1832-1898)