In 1737, John Hancock was born.

In 1789, Georgetown College was established. How would you have liked to have been the real estate agent that handled that transaction?

In 1832, Edouard Manet was born.

In 1898, Randolph Scott was born.

In 1899, Humphrey Bogart was born.

In 1907, Charles Curtis became the first American Indian U.S. Senator (He later became Pres. Herbert Hoover’s vice-president).

In 1919, Ernie Kovacs was born.

In 1950, Richard Dean Anderson was born.

In 1975, Barney Miller debuted on ABC-TV.

In 1989, Salvador Dali died.

In 2004, Captain Kangaroo (Bob Keeshan) died.

You can find out more about this day in history at the History Channel, Those Were The Days, and InfoPlease .

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