In 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots, was beheaded. In 1910, the Boy Scouts of America was incorporated. In 1915, D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation premiered in Los Angeles with the title The Clansman. In 1996, President Bill Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act of 1996 into law, leading to a drastic overhaul of U.S. media regulations.

William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891), U.S. general; Jules Verne (1828-1905), writer; Lana Turner (1920-1995), actress; Jack Lemmon (1925-2001), actor; James Dean (1931-55), actor; Nick Nolte (1941- ), actor; John Grisham (1955- ), writer; Gary Coleman (1968-2010), actor; Seth Green (1974- ), actor.

In 1998, Finland beat Sweden 6-0 in the first women’s Olympic ice hockey game.

The first movie ever to be screened privately at the White House was The Birth of a Nation, which Woodrow Wilson viewed in 1915.

“War is hell.” – attributed to William Tecumseh Sherman