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''Knowing the past, we can make wise
choices for a brighter, and more positive future.''
| 1617 | Rosa de Lima of Peru becomes the first American saint to be canonized. | |
| 1721 | The Peace of Nystad ends the Second Northern War between Sweden and Russia, giving Russia considerably more power in the Baltic region. | |
| 1781 | The French fleet arrives in the Chesapeake Bay to aid the American Revolution. | |
| 1813 | Creek Indians massacre over 500 whites at Fort Mims, Alabama. | |
| 1860 | The first British tramway is inaugurated at Birkenhead by an American, George Francis Train. | |
| 1861 | Union General John Fremont declares martial law throughout Missouri and makes his own emancipation proclamation to free slaves in the state. President Lincoln overrules the general. | |
| 1892 | The Moravia, a passenger ship arriving from Germany, brings cholera to the United States. | |
| 1932 | Nazi leader Hermann Goering is elected president of the Reichstag. | |
| 1944 | Ploesti, the center of the Rumanian oil industry, falls to Soviet troops. | |
| 1961 | President John F. Kennedy appoints General Lucius D. Clay as his personal representative in Berlin. | |
| 1963 | Hot Line communications link installed between Moscow and Washington, DC. | |
| 1967 | US Senate confirms Thurgood Marshall as first African-American Supreme Court justice. | |
| 1976 | Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of Today Show. | |
| 1979 | First recorded instance of a comet (Howard-Koomur-Michels) hitting the sun; the energy released is equal to approximately 1 million hydrogen bombs. | |
| 1982 | Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) forced out of Lebanon after 10 years in Beirut during Lebanese Civil War. | |
| 1983 | Lieutenant Colonel Guion S. Bluford, Jr., becomes the first African-American astronaut to travel in space. | |
| 1986 | KGB arrests journalist Nicholas Daniloff (US News World Report) on a charge of spying and hold him for 13 days. | |
| 1983 |
Eiffel Tower welcomes its 150 millionth visitor, 33-year-old Parisian Jacqueline Martinez.
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| 1797 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, novelist best known for Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus. | |
| 1871 | Ernest Rutherford, physicist who discovered and named alpha, beta and gamma radiation and was the first to achieve a man-made nuclear reaction. | |
| 1893 | Huey P. Long, Louisiana politician who served as governor and U.S. senator, known as "The Kingfish." | |
| 1918 | Ted Williams, Hall of Fame outfielder for the Boston Red Sox, the last man to hit .400 in a season. | |
| 1919 | Kitty Wells (Ellen Muriel Deason), first female singer to top the Country Music charts in US ("It Wasn't God Who Made Honky-Tonk Angels," 1952). | |
| 1930 | Warren Buffett, business magnate; listed as world's wealthiest person in 2008. | |
| 1931 | Carrie Saxon Perry, 1st black mayor of a major US city (Hartford CT). | |
| 1943 | Robert Crumb (R. Crumb), satiric "underground" cartoonist (Fritz the Cat), musician. | |
| 1944 | Molly Ivins, American political humorist, newspaper columnist. | |
| 1956 | Jayne Irving, TV broadcaster (Good Morning Britain). | |
| 1958 | Anna Politkovskaya (Anna Mazepa), New York-born Ukrainian journalist, writer, human rights advocate best known for her reporting from Chechnya. | |
| 1960 | Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Lebanese political-paramilitary group Hezbollah since 1992. | |
| 1960 | US Army Master Sgt. Gary Gordon, receives posthumous Medal of Honor for his actions in the Battle of Mogadishu, Somalia. | |
| 1964 | Gavin Fisher, mechanical engineer; chief designer of the Williams Formula One racing team (1997–2005). | |
| 1972 | Cameron Diaz, model, award-winning actress (The Mask, There's Something About Mary, Any Given Sunday). | |
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