This Day in History
1763: A peace treaty is signed ending the French and Indian War , with France losing Canada and the Midwest.
1899: Pres. William McKinley signs the Treaty of Paris, officially ending the Spanish-American War .
1967: The 25th Amendment , providing for presidential succession in the event of disability or illness, is ratified.
1997: O. J. Simpson is ordered by a civil jury to pay $12.5 million in punitive damages each to the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
2000: The PKK, a Kurdish revolutionary group, announces an end to a 15-year insurrection against the Turkish government which resulted in 30,000 deaths.
Today's Birthdays
1868: William Allen White, journalist/editor (Emporia, KS; died 1944)
1890: Boris Pasternak, novelist/poet (Moscow, Russia; died 1960)
1893: Jimmy Durante, comedian (New York, NY; died 1980)
1898: Dame Judith Anderson, actress (Adelaide, Australia; died 1992). Bertolt Brecht, playwright (Augsburg, Germany; died 1956):
1927: Leontyne Price, opera singer (Laurel, MS)
1930: Robert Wagner, actor (Detroit, MI)
1939: Roberta Flack, singer (Black Mountain, NC)
1946: Donovan (Leitch), singer/songwriter (Glasgow, Scotland)
1950: Mark Spitz, Olympic champion swimmer (Modesto, CA)
1955: Greg Norman, golfer (Melbourne, Australia)
1961: George Stephanopoulos, TV commentator and former presidential adviser (Fall River, MA)
1976: Lance Berkman, baseball player (Waco, TX)
