1919: Felix the Cat made his first appearance in the five-minute short "Feline Follies".
1960: JFK elected as American president,becoming the youngest ever, at the age of 43.
1965: Nine northeastern states and parts of Canada go dark for 13 hours in the worst power failure in history, when a switch at a station near Niagara Falls fails.
1971: Referendum passes allowing the start of MARTA, the Metropolitan Atlanta Rail Transit System.
1989: After 28 years, (construction began the same year the Snoopynut was born), the Berlin Wall between East & West Germany falls.
1991: In Culham, England, nuclear fusion was first harnessed to produce a significant amount of power.
1998: Florida was hit by ten tornadoes while celebrating Hazardous Weather Awareness Week.
1999: Our first large dog, Honey, died of liver disease.
1934: Carl Sagan, American astronomer and writer.
1942: Tom Weiskopf (golfer)
1948: Alan Gratzer from Syracuse, New York, rock drummer with Reo Speedwagon
1951: Lou Ferrigno, ("The Hulk"; plays himself in "King of Queens")
