Historical events
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- 1693 1st woman's magazine "Ladies' Mercury" published (London)
- 1955 1st automobile seat belt legislation enacted (Illinois)
- 1957 Hurricane Audrey, kills 526 in Louisiana & Texas
- 1981 Cambodia adopts its constitution
Birthdays
- 1880 Helen Keller, American blind-deaf author and lecturer, born in Tuscumbia, Alabama (d. 1968)
- 1963 Paul Roos, Australian rules footballer
- 1975 Tobey Maguire, American actor (Spider-Man, The Great Gatsby), born in Santa Monica, California
- 1984 Khloe Kardashian, American reality television star (Keeping Up with the Kardashians), born in Los Angeles, California