1948 Birthday Ian Paice, British hard rock drummer, White Snake, Deep Purple 1945 Birthday Ken "The Snake" Stabler, NFL quarterback, Oak Raiders, Super Bowl XI 1941 Birthday Jon Lord, born in England, keyboardist, Deep Purple-Hush, White Snake 1938 Birthday Robert "Evel" Knievel, motorcycle daredevil, Snake River Canyon 1929 Birthday Jacques "Jake the Snake" Plante, Quebec, NHL goaltender, #1 1912 Birthday Helen Craig, born in San Antonio, Texas, actress, Snake Pit, They Live by Night 1879 Death Big Snake, brother of Ponca chief Standing Bear, dies 1754 Event 1st newspaper cartoon in America-divided snake "Join or Die"
