In 1611 – The King James Version of the Bible was published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker.

Above: Title page to the first edition.

Also: Born in 1921, Satyajit Ray.

Born in 1651 – Saint Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, French priest and educator.

“Example makes a much greater impression on the mind and heart than words.”

Also: Annie Dillard

Born in 1932 – David Tindle, English painter and educator.

Above: Saucepan and Milk Bottle

Born in 1917 – Ella Fitzgerald, American singer.

“I don’t want to say the wrong thing, which I always do. I think I do better when I sing.”

Born in 1904 – J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic.

“When we deny the evil within ourselves, we dehumanize ourselves, and we deprive ourselves not only of our own destiny but of any possibility of dealing with the evil of others.”

Also: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Born in 1939 – Sister Helen Prejean, American nun, activist, and author.

“If you are going to do something for the poor, the abused, or the imprisoned, above all be faithful. People with broken lives often come from lives with broken promises.”

Also: James Dobson

Born in 1893 – Harold Lloyd, American actor, comedian, and filmmaker.

Above: Lloyd in his 1923 film, Safety Last!

In 1995, 168 people were killed in the truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Born in 1915 – Joy Davidman, Polish-Ukrainian American poet and author.

“Anyone who studies our poisonous drugs, our denatured food, our deathtrap automobiles and houses, our lung-rotting cities, must concede that we accept a good deal of murder as inevitable simply because it is done to make or save money.”

Above: Davidman with C. S. Lewis

Also: André Bazin

In 1961 a brigade of 1,500 CIA-trained Cuban exiles stormed the beach in Cuba’s Bay of Pigs, the failed opening to a secret US mission to overthrow Fidel Castro.