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Today in History: Born on September 17

Daniel Webster, congressman from New Hampshire, Massachusetts senator, and secretary of state before the Civil War.

Joseph Glidden, inventor.

Daniel Hale Williams, physician who performed the first open heart surgery, founder of Chicago's Provident Hospital.

A.A. [Alan Alexander] Milne, novelist, humorist and journalist (Winnie the Pooh).

Oliver Hardy, film comedian, one half of Laurel and Hardy.

Cary Grant, U.S. film actor (Gunga Din, Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story, North by Northwest).

During World War II American servicemen could take a break at a Stage Door Canteen.

WWI Figures

Textbooks in Blue California explain history one way while red Texas takes an opposite tack