4 BCE: Jesus of Nazareth is born (possibly—but 25 December makes no sense at all)
1927: Charles Lindbergh, in the Spirit of St. Louis, takes off from New York to cross the Atlantic
1932: Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
1937: George Orwell, fighting at the front for the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War, is shot in the throat by a Fascist sniper; he is left unable to speak and partly paralyzed in one arm
1959: Israel “Bruddah Iz” Kamakawiwo’ole is born
1972: Busta Rhymes is born
1973: “Guilty, guilty, guilty!”
1989: Gilda Radner dies of ovarian cancer at age 42