1743 – Thomas Jefferson was born in Alexandria County, Virginia.
1906 – Author Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin, Ireland.
1909 – Poet Eudora Welty was born in Jackson, MS.
1943 – The Thomas Jefferson Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C.
1954 – Hank Aaron debuted for the Milwaukee Braves.
1954 – Ian Fleming’s first novel about James Bond, Casino Royale, went on sale in the United Kingdom.
1958 – Van Cliburn of Kilgore, TX earned 1st prize in the Soviet Union’s Tchaikovsky International Piano Contest in Moscow.
1964 – At the 36th Annual Academy Awards ceremony, Sidney Poitier became the first African-American to win a lead acting Oscar when he was named Best Actor for Lilies of the Field.
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