In 1810, Emperor Napoleon of France was married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria.
In 1847, John Chapman, better known as "Johnny Appleseed," died in Allen County, Indiana.
In 1888, the famous "Blizzard of '88" struck the northeastern United States. In the days that followed, some 400 people died as a result of the harsh weather.
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Bandleader Lawrence Welk (1903)
Former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson (1916)
Newpaper publisher Rupert Murdoch (1931)
ABC correspondent Sam Donaldson (1934)
Supreme court Justice Antonin Scalia (1936)
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"For a fiction writer, to believe nothing is to see nothing."