In 1664, New Amsterdam became New York as the Dutch surrendered Manhattan and surrounding land to the British. In 1900, Galveston, Texas, was struck by a massive hurricane. In 1966, the Star Trek TV series premiered on NBC. In 1974, President Gerald Ford pardoned former president Richard Nixon for any crimes he might have committed before resigning.

Claude Pepper (1900-89), U.S. senator; Sid Caesar (1922- ), comedian/actor; Peter Sellers (1925-80) comedian/actor; Patsy Cline (1932-63), singer; Tom Everett Scott (1970- ), actor; David Arquette (1971- ), actor; Pink (1979- ), singer.

In 1998, Mark McGwire broke Roger Maris’s 1961 season home run record by hitting his 62nd for the year.

More than 8,000 people are estimated to have died in the 1900 Galveston hurricane, making it the deadliest natural disaster in American history to date.

“A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.” – Richard M. Nixon