In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for St. Helena to spend the remainder of his days in exile.
In 1844, Brigham Young was chosen to head the Mormon Church following the killing of Joseph Smith.
In 1974, faced with further eroding support following the revelation of more damaging evidence of his involvement in the Watergate scandal, President Nixon announced in a nationally broadcast address that he would resign his office at noon the following day.
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Producer Dino DeLaurentiis (1919)
Actress Esther Williams (1923)
Joan Mondale, wife of former Vice President Walter F. Mondale (1930)
Singer Mel Tillis (1932)
Actor Dustin Hoffman (1937)
Actress Connie Stevens (1938)
Movie director Peter Weir ("Witness" and "Dead Poets Society") (1944)
Actor Keith Carradine (1950)
Actor Donny Most (1953)
Britain's Princess Beatrice Elizabeth Mary (1988)
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"To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible."