In 1758, the fifth president of the United States, James Monroe, was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia.
In 1789, there was a mutiny on the "Bounty" as the crew of the British ship set Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors adrift in a launch in the South Pacific.
In 1941, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that blacks traveling on railroad cars were entitled to the same level of quality and service given white passengers.
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Syndicated columnist Rowland Evans (1921)
Actress-singer Ann-Margret (1941)
Actress Marcia Strassman (1948)
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"Anger would break the whole world to pieces if it could."
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Frederick William Faber, English theologian, 1814-1863