1919 Jack Palance - Actor (City Slickers, Requiem for a Heavyweight, Batman, Cops and Robbersons, Sudden Fear, Shane) He owed his distinctive looks, in part, to plastic surgery following a bomber crash in World War II

Well, he didn't look that mean look slow him down one bit.

1920 Bill Cullen - TV host (I've Got a Secret, The Joker's Wild, Name that Tune)

He was a staple of my TV viewing.

1968 Molly Ringwald - Actress (The Facts of Life, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, The Stand, Requiem for Murder)

She's a jazz singer now.

1885 Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published in the US for the first time. The book had made its debut the previous year in Canada and Britain

We read it in our book club, and it was hard for me to read the "n" word all over the place even though I knew when it was written it was common. I enjoyed the adventure though.