1928 - 59% of Cleveland voters authorize building a stadium with city bonds in the amount of US$2.5 million
1964 - WEIQ TV channel 42 in Mobile, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1976 - Benjamin Hooks elected to succeed Roy Wilkins as executive director of NAACP
1986 - President Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill
2009 - President Barack Obama signs congressional resolution conferring honorary U.S. citizenship to Revolutionary War hero Casimir Pulaski

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1854 - John Philip Sousa, American composer and march king (Stars and Stripes Forever), born in Washington, D.C. (d. 1932)
1923 - Clay [David] Jones, Welsh gardener (BBC Gardener's Question Time), born in Cardigan, Wales (d. 1996)
1947 - Jack Arnold, Fictional father on "The Wonder Years", born in America (d. 1975)
1972 - Anthony Brown, American NFL tackle (Cincinnati Bengals), born in Okinawa, Japan

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