1755: Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin is born; goes on to write La Physiologie du gout
1778: Oliver Pollock invents the $ symbol
1883: Lon Chaney is born
1920: Toshiro Mifune is born
1932: Five hundred schoolchildren, most with haggard faces and in tattered clothes, parade through Chicago’s downtown section to the Board of Education offices to demand that the school system provide them with food
1942: Samuel R. Delany is born
1949: Gil Scott-Heron is born, and the revolution will not be televised
1976: The Apple Computer Company is born
2006: Google announces Google Romance