In 1506, Christopher Columbus died in poverty in Spain.
In 1830, the first railroad timetable was published, in the newspaper the Baltimore American.
In 1861, North Carolina voted to secede from the Union.
In 1861, the capital of the Confederacy was moved from Montgomery, Ala., to Richmond, Va.
In 1902, the United States ended its occupation of Cuba.
In 1939, regular trans-Atlantic air service began as a Pan American Airways plane, the Yankee Clipper, took off from Port Washington, N.Y., bound for Europe.
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Actor Jamnes Stewart (1907)
Comedian George Gobel (1919)
Actress Constance Towers (1932)
Singer Joe Cocker (1944)
Singer-actress Cher (1946)
Ron Reagan (1958)
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"We must have ... a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust."
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Margaret Mead, American anthropologist (1901-1978)