Born on This Day
English pilot and author whose memoir "West With the Night" recounted her historic 1936 solo flight across the Atlantic.
Queen of gospel music noted for her soulful, improvisational renditions of classics like "Move on Up a Little Higher."
American writer and animator who created animated TV comedies "Family Guy" and "American Dad."
Baronet Cecil Chubb, the last private owner of Stonehenge, gifts it to the British people. Three years earlier, on a whim, he paid £6,600 for the ramshackle megalith at auction. His wife, who had sent him to buy dining chairs, was not pleased.
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