The CTCA program of activities was profuse: William Farnum and Mary Pickford on the screen, Elsie Janis and Harry Lauder on the stage, books provided by the American Library Association, full equipment for games and sports -- except that no `` bones '' were furnished for the all-time favorite pastime played on any floor and known as `` African golf ''.

Thus at the same time that William Henry Harrison was preparing to pacify the aborigines of Indiana Territory and winning fame at the battle of Tippecanoe, Anglo-Saxon settlement made a great leap into the center of the North American continent to the west of the American agricultural frontier.

The American part of the evening consisted of Paul Creston's Dance Overture, William Schuman's `` Chester '' From `` New England Triptych '' and two works of Wallingford Riegger, Dance Rhythms, Op. 58, and a Romanza For Strings, Op. 56A.

* The Atlas ( novel ), by American author William T. Vollmann

* 1909 – William M. Branham, American evangelist ( d. 1965 )

* 1874 – William B. Bankhead, American politician ( d. 1940 )

* 1939 – William Least Heat-Moon, American author

* 1911 – William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1996 )

* 1911 – William Bernbach, American advertiser, co-founder of DDB Worldwide ( d. 1982 )

* 1770 – William Clark, American soldier, explorer, and politician ( d. 1838 )

* 1809 – William B. Travis, American lawyer and soldier ( d. 1836 )

* 1934 – William Calhoun, American wrestler ( d. 1989 )

* 1877 – William B. Ogden, American politician, 1st Mayor of Chicago ( b. 1805 )

* 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina.

* 1921 – William Asher, American director, screenwriter, and producer ( d. 2012 )

* 1981 – Ray William Johnson, American comedian

* 1812 – War of 1812: American General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit without a fight to the British Army.

* 1908 – William Keepers Maxwell, Jr., American novelist ( d. 2000 )

* 1931 – William Goldman, American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter

* 1919 – William P. Foster, American bandleader and educator ( d. 2010 )

* 1864 – During the American Civil War, Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta, Georgia.

* 1928 – F. William Free, American advertising executive ( d. 2003 )

* 1940 – William Cohen, American politician and author, 20th United States Secretary of Defense

* 1935 – William Friedkin, American director

* 1923 – Rose Marie, American actress and singer

* 1941 – Pete Rose, American baseball player

* 2012 – Matt Branam, American academic, 14th president of Rose – Hulman Institute of Technology ( b. 1954 )

* 1939 – Charlie Rose, American politician ( d. 2012 )

* 1886 – Rose Wilder Lane, American writer and reporter ( d. 1968 )

* 1999 – Rose Bird, American judge ( b. 1936 )

* 1954 – Fred Rose, American songwriter and music publishing executive ( b. 1897 )

* 1977 – Kevin Rose, American businessman and television host, founded Digg

* 1962 – W. Axl Rose, American singer ( Guns N ' Roses )

It was honored with the President's Award in 2000 by All American Rose Selections, Inc., which is presented to one public garden in the United States each year for superior rose maintenance and display: “ For contributing to the public interest in rose growing through its efforts in maintaining an outstanding public rose garden .”

* 1973 – Jalen Rose, American basketball player

* 1980 – Velvet Rose, American porn actress

* 1921 – Philip Rose, American Broadway producer ( d. 2011 )

* 1982 – Amber Rose Kandarian, Armenian American filmmaker

* 1987 – Katy Rose, American pop singer

* 1918 – Leonard Rose, American cellist ( d. 1984 )

* 1926 – Irwin Rose, American biologist, Nobel Prize laureate

* 1911 – Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress and entertainer ( d. 1970 )

* 1890 – Rose Kennedy, American philanthropist, wife of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. ( d. 1995 )

* 1896 – Ruth Rose, American screenwriter ( d. 1978 )

* 1850 – Rose Hartwick Thorpe, American poet ( d. 1939 )

* 1987 – Kesha ( Kesha Rose Sebert ), American singer

In 1971, she was included in a compilation of talks by prominent women, But the Women Rose, Vol. 2: Voices of Women in American History.

* 1991 – Julianna Rose Mauriello, American actress, singer, and dancer

* 1885 – Ralph Rose, American track and field athlete ( d. 1913 )