In 1498, Christopher Columbus discovered the island of Trinidad.
In 1556, St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus, died in Rome.
In 1777, the Marquis de Lafayette, a 19-year-old French nobleman, was made a major-general in the Continental Army after offering his help to the rebelling American colonies. Lafayette later played a role in the British defeat at Yorktown.
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Sprotscaster Curt Gowdy (1919)
Actor Don Murray (1929)
Actress Geraldine Chaplin (1944)
Movie producer Sherry Lansing (1944)
Tennis player Evonne Goolagong Cawley (1951)
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"Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do."
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Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (1883-1955)