dates

wiki your birth date. 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, 1 holiday

Events:
1732- the Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London.

1930 – W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts broadcasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. The broadcast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for I.J. Fox Furriers, who sponsored the radio show.

1972 – Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew takes the photograph known as "The Blue Marble" as they leave the Earth.

1999 – The RIAA files a lawsuit against the Napster file-sharing client, on charges of copyright infringement.

births:
1863 – Richard Sears, American department store founder (d. 1914)

1910 – Louis Prima, American musician (d. 1978)

1956 – Larry Bird, American basketball player

Deaths:

1683 – John Oldham, English poet (b. 1653)

1980 – Darby Crash, American punk-rock musician (b. 1958)

holiday:
US – Pearl Harbor Day (observance)