1917 Jack Soo – Comedian and actor (Barney Miller, Return from Witch Mountain, The Green Berets, Flower Drum Song, Thoroughly Modern Millie, MASH, Valentine’s Day)

I always liked him.

1830 Josiah Henson arrived in Upper Canada from Maryland with his wife and four children on the Underground Railway. The escaped US slave became the pastor of a local church and started a technical school. He was the model for the hero of Harriet Beecher Stowe's famous novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, the book that Abraham Lincoln said started the US Civil War

I still haven't read it. I'm going to see if it's on-line and if so, I'm going to read it.

1973 The former Triple Crown champion horse, Secretariat, won his final race by 6 1/2 lengths in the Canadian International Stakes at Woodbine, in Toronto, Ontario

I've seen it many times on You Tube and it is exciting and unbelievable to watch each time. He was spectacular.