| On this date in: |
| 1868 |
Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the “Type-Writer.” |
| 1892 |
The Democratic convention in Chicago nominated former President Grover Cleveland on the first ballot. |
| 1923 |
Choreographer-director Bob Fosse was born in Chicago. |
| 1931 |
Aviators Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from New York on the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane. |
| 1947 |
The Senate joined the House in overriding President Harry S. Truman’s veto of the Taft-Hartley Act, which allows the president to intervene in labor disputes. |
| 1956 |
Gamal Abdel Nasser was elected president of Egypt. |
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| 1969 |
Warren E. Burger was sworn in as chief justice of the United States. |
| 1992 |
John Gotti, convicted of racketeering charges, was sentenced in New York to life in prison. |
| 1993 |
Lorena Bobbitt of Prince William County, Va., sexually mutilated her husband, John, after he allegedly raped her. |
| 2005 |
Former Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen was sentenced to 60 years in prison for the 1964 Mississippi slayings of three civil rights workers. |
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| Today’s Birthdays: |
| Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas turns 68 years old today. |
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| Name |
Profession |
Age |
| Randy Jackson |
TV personality (“American Idol”) |
60 |
| Frances McDormand |
Actress |
59 |
| Joss Whedon |
Writer, director (“The Avengers” movies, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”) |
52 |
| Selma Blair |
Actress |
44 |
| KT Tunstall |
Rock singer |
41 |
| Duffy |
Rock singer |
32 |
| Actress Melissa Rauch (“The Big Bang Theory”) turns 36 years old today. |
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| AP Photo/Matt Sayles |
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