March 19 birthdays
1848 WYATT EARP American frontiersman
Earp took part in the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral, during which lawmen killed three outlaws. He is often erroneously regarded as the central figure in the shootout, although his brother, Virgil, was the Tombestone City Deputy Marshall.
1905 ALBERT SPEER German Nazi leader
Speer was an architect who served as Minister of Armaments and War
Production in Nazi Germany during most of World War II. A close ally of Adolf Hitler, he was convicted and sentenced to 20 years jail at the Nuremberg trials.