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Births Today

• 1818 - "Richard Gatling, US inventor of the Gatling gun"
  
• 1852 - "Herbert Henry Asquith, British statesman"
  
• 1888 - "Maurice Chevalier, French actor"
• 1913 - "Jesse Owens, American Olympic athlete"
  
• 1937 - "Wesley Hall, West Indian cricketer"
  
• 1940 - "Patrick Mower, Actor"
  
• 1941 - "Linda Gray, American actress"
  

events today

• 1878 - Cleopatra's Needle was erected on London's Embankment
• 1910 - "The world's first police woman was appointed in Los Angeles, USA"
• 1917 - "In Buenos Aires, South America, German buildings were destroyed by mobs"
• 1919 - Adlof Hitler joined the German Worker's Party
• 1943 - "Benito Mussolini, who had been captured by the Allies, was rescued by the Germans"
• 1959 - "Luna 2, of the USSR, became to first spacecraft to crash on the moon"
• 1972 - Two British trawlers were sunk by Icelandic gunboats during the 'cod war'
• 1990 - Full sovereignty was handed back to the newly unified German state
• 1992 - "Anthony Perkins, the US film actor of 'Psycho' fame, died"