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This Day In History

1815

Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba.

1909

Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.

1919

President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of the U.S. Congress establishing most of the Grand Canyon as a United States National Park.

1929

President Calvin Coolidge signs an Executive Order establishing the 96,000 acre Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.

1946

Finnish observers report the first of many thousands of sightings of ghost rockets.

Famous Birthdays

1564

Christopher Marlowe, English dramatist (d. 1593)

1732

Francis Marion, American Revolutionary War officer (d. 1795)

1802

Victor Hugo, French writer (d. 1885)

1829

Levi Strauss, German-born clothing designer (d. 1902)

1846

William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, American frontiersman (d. 1917)

1908

Tex Avery, American cartoonist (d. 1980)

1916

Jackie Gleason, American actor, writer, composer, and comedian (d. 1987)

1918

Theodore Sturgeon, American science fiction & horror author

1920

Tony Randall, American actor (d. 2004)

1928

Fats Domino, American musician

1932

Johnny Cash, American musician (d. 2003)

1946

Phyllis Eisenstein, Amercian science fiction author

1949

Elizabeth George, American novelist