Born in 1969 – Ken Griffey Jr., American baseball player.

On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.

Above: "The Harvest of Death": Union dead on the battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, photographed July 5 or July 6, 1863, by Timothy H. O’Sullivan.

Born in 1818 – Ivan Turgenev, Russian author and playwright.

“Most people can’t understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.”

“Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this – Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.”

Born in 1897 – Dorothy Day, American journalist and activist. Co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement.

Who said,

“Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.”

and

“The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?”

In 1917, Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution took place as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky.

Born in 1861 – James Naismith, Canadian-American physician and educator, inventor of basketball.

Born in 1952 – Bill Walton, American basketball player and sportscaster.

“John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!”

Born in 1887 – L.S. Lowry, English painter and illustrator.

Above: The Derelict House, 1952.

Born in 1945 – Henry Winkler, American actor.

Above: Winkler as Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli.

Previously: Louis Malle 

Born in 1858 – Theodore Roosevelt, American colonel and politician, 26th President of the United States, and Nobel Prize laureate.

“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”