Also on this day...
World Freedom Day - commemorates the fall of the Berlin Wall
National Scrapple Day - a meat dish invented by the Pennsylvania Dutch
Chaos Never Dies Day
Benjamin Banneker, African-American mathematician, surveyor of Washington, DC, astronomer, and Almanac author, was born in 1731. Gail Borden, inventor of condensed milk, was born in 1801.
Edna May Oliver was born in 1883. Hedy Lamarr was born in 1914, and Mary Travers was born in 1936.