He's best known for his novels The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery. 1932 Born: Umberto Eco, Italian author and philosopher.1933 Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge began in San Fransisco Bay.Hayao Miyazaki is considered as one of the most popular and influential animators in cinema. He is co-founder of Studio Ghibli (Castle in the Sky, My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Ponyo). 1941 Born: Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese animator, director and screenwriter.Among his works are also CBS This Morning and Person to Person, a news program where celebrities are interviewed in their homes. 1942 Born: Charlie Rose, American journalist, talk show host.He developed and promoted about 100 products produced from peanuts, including paints, dyes, cosmetics, gasoline and nitroglycerin. 1943 Died: George Washington Carver, American botanist, inventor.1944 The Daily Mail became the very first transoceanic newspaper.She's best known for her role as Kay Adams-Corleone in The Godfather. 1946 Born: Diane Keaton, American actress, producer, director and screenwriter.Mulville and O'Donoghue were listed by the Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy. He co-founded with Denise O'Donoghue and Rory McGrath the British independent television production company Hat Trick Productions. 1955 Born: Jimmy Mulville, English comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter.According to Eisenhower's speech, the U.S forces would secure and protect any country or nation that requested aid against armed aggression from any nation controlled by communism. Eisenhower announced the establishment of what would later be called the Eisenhower Doctrine. 1957 The United States President Dwight D.1968 Alexander DubДЌek came to power in Czechoslovakia that marked the beginning of 'Prague Spring'.He is better known by his stage name Marilyn Manson. 1969 Born: Brian Hugh Warner, American musician, singer and songwriter.1970 Died: Max Born, German physicist, mathematician, Noble Prize laureate for his fundamental research in Quantum Mechanics and statistical interpretation of the wave function.1972 Richard Nixon ordered the development of a Space Shuttle program.

People magazine named Cooper the 'Sexiest Man Alive' in 2011. He's famous for his roles in The Hangover trilogy, The A-Team, Limitless, The Place Beyond the Pines.

1975 Born: Bradley Cooper, American actor.

He had a high influence as jazz double bassist and also known for his ambitious music.

1979 Died: Charles Mingus, American bassist.

He's also known for his contribution to theories on the development of organic life from non-living matter.

1981 Died: Harold Urey, American chemist, Noble Prize laureate in Chemistry for discovery of deuterium.

This type of oil is lighter and easily biodegradable than other North Sea oils. Fortunately, MV Braer carried crude oil, not a typical North Sea oil. This accident resulted in spilling 84,700 tons of oil.

1993 MV Braer, the oil tanker, run aground off Shetland, Scotland.

Best known for her bestseller Please Don't Eat the Daisies and the plays Mary, Mary and King of Hearts.

2003 Died: Jean Kerr, American author.

Heatley's contribution to it was developing the back extraction technique for efficient purifying of penicillin in bulk. He was a member in a team that developed penicillin.

2004 Died: Norman Heatley, American chemist and biologist.

The discovery team used the images originally taken in 2003 at the Palomar Observatory.

2005 Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System was discovered.

He's famous for invention of instant noodles and Cup Noodles.

2007 Died: Momofuku Ando, Japanese businessman, the founder of Nissin Food Products.

He's best knows as co-founder of the San Diego Comic-Con International.

2012 Died: Richard Alf, American businessman.

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