On This Day in History

• The Gunpowder Plot is discovered and foiled (1605)
• The Glorious Revolution begins (1688)
• The Treaty of Fort Stanwix settles claims between the British North American colonies and the Iroquois nation (1763)
• Nat Turner is convicted of leading a slave rebellion in Virginia (1831)
• Susan B. Anthony is arrested for voting (1872)
• A labor strike turns violent and leads to the Everett Massacre in Washington state (1916)
• George Reilly, the “Ace of Spies” is executed by the Soviets (1925)
• Saddam Hussein is convicted and sentenced to death (2005)
• The Fort Hood Shootings take place (2009)

Birthdays

• Famke Janssen, actress (1965)
• Tatum O’Neal, actress (1963)
• Andrea McArdle, actress (1963)
• Bryan Adams, singer-songwriter (1959)
• Robert Patrick, actor (1958)
• Kris Kardashian Jenner, reality star (1955)
• Armin Shimerman, actor (1949)
• Bernard-Henri Lévi, philosopher (1948)
• Sam Shepard, actor and playwright (1948)
• Peter Noone, lead singer for Herman’s Hermits (1947)
• Gram Parsons, singer-songwriter (1946)
• Art Garfunkel, singer (1941)
• Elke Sommer, actress (1940)
• Jim Steranko, comic book artist (1938)
• Vivien Leigh, actress (1913)
• Roy Rogers, “King of the Cowboys” (1911)
• J. B. S. Haldane, geneticist (1892)
• Will Durant, historian (1885)
• Eugene V. Debs, socialist leader (1855)

Deaths

• Jill Clayburgh, actress (2010)
• John Fowles, author (2005)
• Fred MacMurray, actor (1991)
• Vladimir Horowitz, pianist (1989)
• Jacques Tati, actor and director (1982)
• Al Capp, cartoonist (1979)
• Guy Lombardo, bandleader (1977)
• Lionel Trilling, critic (1975)
• “Sad” Sam Jones, baseball player (1971)
• Mack Sennett, director (1960)
• Ward Bond, actor (1960)
• Art Tatum, jazz pianist (1956)
• Maurice Utrillo, painter (1955)
• Alexis Carrel, surgeon, co-developer of the first perfusion pump for open heart surgery (1944)
• George M. Cohan, playwright, composer, actor, singer, producer (1942)
• James Clerk Maxwell, physicist (1879)
• Casimir III the Great, Polish monarch (1370)

Holidays

• Guy Fawkes Night (United Kingdom and some Commonwealth nations)
• Kanakadasa Jayanthi (India)
• National Doughnut Day (US)
• West Country Carnival (England)