1886: James VanDerZee is born [gallery]
1900: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is born [prince]
1916: Sir Roger Casement is convicted of treason and sentenced to death
1919: Slim Pickens is born
1956: President Eisenhower creates the interstate highway system
1967: Jayne Mansfield dies in a car crash
1987: Elizabeth Cotten dies [vids] [tablature]
1995: The US space shuttle Atlantis delivers a relief crew of two cosmonauts to the Russian space station Mir