In 1950, French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman presented his proposal for European integration, called the “Schuman Declaration.”
In 1961, Newton Minow, newly appointed chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, gave a speech to broadcasters in which he described network TV as a “vast wasteland.”
In 1974, the U.S. House of Representatives opened impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
In 2001, during a soccer game in Ghana, 126 people died in a stampede caused by an encounter between fans and police.

J.M. Barrie (1860-1937), playwright
Howard Carter (1874-1939), archaeologist
Mike Wallace (1918- ), journalist, is 90.
Candice Bergen (1946- ), actress, is 62.
Billy Joel (1949- ), musician, is 59.
Tony Gwynn (1960- ), baseball player, is 48.
Rosario Dawson (1979- ), actress, is 29.

In 1984, the White Sox finally won a 25-inning game that had been suspended from the day before. It was the longest timed game in Major League Baseball history, at 8 hours and 6 minutes.

Mike Wallace has been a mainstay of the TV news program 60 Minutes since its start in 1968. He announced his retirement in March 2006 but has continued work on the show as a “Correspondent Emeritus.”

“Ambition—it is the last infirmity of noble minds.” J.M. Barrie