Peggy Fleming is 57 today. Miss Fleming won her gold medal for figure skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics.
Bobbie Gentry is 61. No yet word on what it was she and Billy Joe threw off the Tallahatchee bridge.
Bugs Bunny made his first featured appearance in a cartoon released on this date in 1940, A Wild Hare. Bugs was modeled on Groucho Marx with a carrot instead of a cigar — and with a Brooklyn accent.
The truce ending the Korean War was signed on this date in 1953. Read the report from The New York Times.
The first U.S. government agency, the Department of Foreign Affairs (which became the Department of State), was established on this date in 1789.