The moon is waning. The morning star is Mercury, Venus, Mars and Saturn. The evening stars are Neptune, Jupiter and Uranus.

Those born on this date are under the sign of Libra. They include singer Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale, in 1820; inventor and manufacturer George Westinghouse in 1846; tennis champion Helen Wills Moody in 1905; actresses Janet Gaynor in 1906 and Carole Lombard in 1908; Norwegian ethnologist, archaeologist and adventurer Thor Heyerdahl in 1914; former 60 Minutes journalist Shana Alexander in 1925; and actresses Britt Ekland in 1942 (age 67) and Elisabeth Shue in 1963 (age 46).

In 1853, Antioch College opened in Yellow Springs, Ohio. It was the first non-sectarian school to offer equal opportunity for both men and women.

In 1921, sports writer Grantland Rice was at the microphone as the World Series was broadcast on radio for the first time.

In 1927, the movies began learning to talk. The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson, Hollywood's legendary first talkie, premiered in New York, ushering in the era of sound to great moviegoer enthusiasm and heralded the end of the silents.

In 1981, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was assassinated as he reviewed a military parade in Cairo.

In 1985, England's worst post-war race rioting, which began almost a month earlier in Birmingham, spread to the Tottenham section of London. One officer died and 125 people were injured.

In 1989, Oscar-winning Hollywood legend Bette Davis died of cancer in a suburb of Paris. She was 81.

In 1991, Anita Hill, a former personal assistant to Supreme Court justice nominee Clarence Thomas, accused Thomas of sexual harassment.

In 1994, South African President Nelson Mandela addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress.

In 1997, U.S. President Bill Clinton used his new line-item veto power to eliminate 38 military spending projects.

In 2001, Cal Ripkin Jr. retired after a spectacular baseball career with the Baltimore Orioles that included playing in a record 2,632 consecutive games.

In 2004, a U.S. weapons inspector said that Iraq began destroying its illicit weapons in 1991 and had none by 1996, seven years before the United States invaded.

In 2005, U.S. President George Bush said the United States and allied forces had foiled at least three al-Qaida U.S. attacks since Sept. 11, 2001.

Also in 2005, Canadian health officials said an additional six older people died in Toronto from a mysterious respiratory virus but the toll of 16 dead wasn't considered a threat to the city.

In 2007, Pervez Musharraf breezed to re-election to a third term as president of Pakistan. But, opposition continued to challenge legality of his serving as both president and army chief.

In 2008, stock markets around the world lost ground on the first day of trading after the U.S. bailout bill was signed into law. An international credit crunch and threats of a worldwide recession sent nations scurrying to find emergency ways to shore up their aching economies. U.S. markets flirted with a single-day record of declines but recovered from a momentary 800-point drop in the Dow Jones industrial average. The DJIA closed below the 10,000-point level for the first time in four years, ending at 9,955.50, off 3.58 percent on a loss of 369.88 points.

Also in 2008, suicide bombers killed 27 people in central Sri Lanka and 20 in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province. And, at least 60 people died in southern Kyrgyzstan when an earthquake rattled the central Asian country.