1927: Robert Louis "Bob" Fosse was born in Chicago. Over the course of an almost fifty-year career as a performer, director, and writer, Fosse emerged as one of the finest choreographers to work in American musical film and theater. Fosse, whose father worked in vaudeville, was half of the Riff Brothers dance act by the age of thirteen. He enlisted in the Navy after high school and served two years. He then began his career as a dancer. By age 21, Fosse was hoofing in road companies and, soon after that, on Broadway. (Source: Library of Congress)

1868: The first typewriter was patented by Luther Sholes. President Rutherford B. Hayes, president from 1878-1881, was the first president to use a typewriter in the White House.