In 1605, the "Gunpowder Plot" failed as Guy Fawkes was seized before he could blow up the English Parliament.
In 1782, the Continental Congress elected John Hanson of Maryland its chairman, giving him the title, "President of the United States in Congress Assembled."
In 1872, suffragist Susan B. Anthony was fined $100.00 for trying to vote in the presidential election for Ulysses S. Grant, who won. (Anthony never did pay the fine.)
In 1895, George B. Selden of Rochester, N.Y., received the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
In 1911, Calbraith P. Rodgers arrived in Pasadena, Calif., having completed the first transcontinental airplane flight in 49 days.
(Rodgers had left Sheepshead Bay, N.Y., Sept. 17 in a Burgess-Wright biplane, and required about 70 stops along the way.)
In 1946, Massachusetts Democrat John F. Kennedy was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
In 1968, Richard M. Nixon defeated Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and third-party candidate George C. Wallace for the presidency. Nixon won 43.4 percent of the popular vot, compared with Humphrey's 42.7 percent and Wallace's 13.5 percent. However, Nixon won 301 Electoral College votes, compared with 191 for Humphrey and 46 for Wallace.
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Actor-singer Roy Rogers (1912)
Singer-songwriter Ike Turner (1931)
Actress Elke Sommer (1940)
Actor-playwright Sam Shepard (1943)
Singer Bryan Adams (1959)
Actress Tatum O'Neal (1963)
Actress Andrea McArdle (1963)
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"All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room."
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Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and theologian (1623-1662)