1977 Orlando Bloom – British actor (Pirates of the Caribbean, The Lord of the Rings, Elizabethtown, Troy, Ned Kelly)

I had a crush on him in The Lord of the Rings.

1929 Wyatt Earp, age 80 - US frontiersman, lawman and gunfighter who, with his brothers Virgil and Morgan, and Doc Holliday, fought the Clanton Gang at the OK Corral.

Living in SoCal from the age of 6 months until I moved back to AZ after retirement, I never knew he lived and died in Los Angeles until I watched at episode of History Hunters on YouTube.

1920 The New York Times ridiculed aviation pioneer Robert Godard for saying that rockets would work in outer space. The paper issued an apology and retraction after the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing

Too bad the guy was probably already long dead.

1964 A reluctant Capitol Records released the first Beatles record in the US "to see how it goes". I Wanna Hold Your Hand became their fastest selling single ever, with one million copies being sold in the first three weeks

Sometimes it pays to take a chance.