1930 - Neil Armstrong - American astronaut who at 10:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, July 20, 1969, became the first person to set foot on the moon.
1906 - John Huston - Academy Award-winning director of some of Hollywood's classic movies including "Treasure of Sierra Madre", "The Maltese Falcon" and "The African Queen."
Other notable events
on this day in history:
1923 - Henry Sullivan became the first American to successfully complete the swim across the English Channel.
1914 - The intersection Euclid Avenue and East 105th Street in Cleveland, Ohio, became the first intersection in the country to be equipped with electric traffic lights.
1862 - America's first income tax was passed by Congress. It called for a 3% tax on incomes exceeding $800 a year and was used to help finance the Union's Civil War effort.