Birthdays
# 1971 Lisa "left-eyes" Lopes (hip hop singer)
# 1970 Joseph Fiennes (actor)
# 1968 Jeremy Mayfield (Nascar Driver)
# 1965 Todd Bridges (actor)
# 1961 Cathy Silvers (actress)
# 1943 Cilla Black (Priscilla Maria Veronica White) (singer)
# 1939 Don Williams (country singer)
# 1936 Louis Gossett Jr. (actor)
# 1935 Lee Ann Meriwether (Miss America in 1955 and actress)
# 1923 Henry Kissinger (US Secretary of State)
# 1922 Christopher Lee (actor)
# 1912 Slammin' Sammy Snead (champion golfer)
# 1911 Hubert H. Humphrey (1964 Democratic Presidential Candidate)
# 1911 Vincent Price (actor)
# 1907 Rachel Carson (author)
# 1894 Dashiell Hammett (author)
# 1878 Isadora Duncan (dancer)
# 1837 Wild Bill Hickok (western sheriff)
# 1794 Cornelius Vanderbilt (capitalist)
1937 The Golden Gate Bridge was opened to pedestrian traffic the previous day. This day at noon, President Franklin Roosevelt presses a telegraph key in the White House, and the bridge is opened to vehicular traffic. Until the Verrazano Narrows Bridge was completed in 1964, the Golden Gate's 1280-meter orange-painted structural steel suspension span was the longest in the world. (Today, the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge in Japan boasts the longest span at over 2000 meters.)
1927 The very last Model T Ford.
Production of the Ford Model T officially ended after 15'007'033 units had been built. The Model T sold more units than any other car model in history, until the Volkswagen Beetle eclipsed its record in the 1970s.