In 1837, the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, Grover Cleveland, was born in Caldwell, N.J.
In 1922, Mohandas K. Gandhi was sentenced in India to six years' imprisonment for civil disobedience. He was released after serving two years.
In 1931, Schick Inc. marketed the first electric razor.
In 1965, the first spacewalk took place as Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov left his "Voskhod II" capsule and remained outside the spacecraft for 20 minutes, secured by a tether.
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Actor Peter Graves (1926)
Actor Kevin Dobson (1943)
Singer Vanessa Williams (1963)
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"I take a simple view of living. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it."