Born on This Day
Emmy-winning talk-show host of "Late Night," "The Tonight Show" and "Conan."
Scheming Italian noblewoman during the Renaissance whose three marriages advanced the powerful Borgia family.
Emmy-winning actress who starred in "Real Women Have Curves," "Ugly Betty" and "Barbie."
Yankee Stadium opens in the Bronx, New York. The press nicknames it the “House that Ruth Built” for slugger Babe Ruth, and he marks the occasion with a three-run homer.
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