James A. Naismith, inventor of basketball born in Ontario, Canada (1861)

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Sally Field, Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning actress (Norma Rae, Places in the Heart, Sybil), born (1946)

Mike Nichols, stage and film director (The Graduate, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), born (1931)

Aloys Senefelder, German inventor of lithography, born (1771)

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Adolphe Sax, Belgian musician and saxophone inventor, born (1814)

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Charles Dow, co-founder of Dow Jones and first editor of the Wall St Journal, born (1851)

James Jones, American novelist (From Here To Eternity, Thin Red Line), born (1921)

Abraham Lincoln elected 16th U.S. President (1860)

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First intercollegiate football game between Rutgers and Princeton (1869)

Iran-Contra Scandal began (1986)

Meet the Press debuted (1947)

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Direct telegraph link established between New York and San Francisco (1862)

Richard Nixon elected 37th U.S. President (1968)

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President Ronald Reagan re-elected to a second term (1984)

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President Dwight Eisenhower re-elected to a second term (1956)

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U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution condemning South Africa for its apartheid policies and recommended economic sanctions (1962)