In 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in England after she was implicated in a plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
In 1693, a charter was granted for the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va.
In 1915, the motion picture "The Birth of a Nation, " directed by D.W. Griffith, premiered at Clune's Auditorium in Los Angeles.
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Actress Lana Turner (1921)
Composer-conductor John Williams (1932)
ABC News anchor Ted Koppel (1940)
Comedian Robert Klein (1942)
Actress Brooke Adams (1949)
Actor Gary Coleman (1968)
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"If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history."
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Pierre Bayle, French philosopher and critic (1647-1706)