- Famous births
- Giuseppe de Majo (1697)
- Fritz Lang (1890)
- Walt Disney (1901)
- Cecil Frank Powell (1903)
- Little Richard (1932)
- Patricia Kaas (1966)
- Nick Stahl (1979)
- Frankie Muniz (1985)
- Famous deaths
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1791)
- Claude Monet (1926)
- Robert Parrish (1995)
- World events
- 1st electric car (built in Toronto) could go 15 miles between charges (1893)
- U.S. aircraft carrier Lexington and 5 heavy cruisers leave Pearl Harbor (1941)
- Russian anti offensive in Moscow drives out nazi army (1941)
- Historic bus boycott begins in Montgomery, Alabama by Rosa Parks (1955)
- Tens of thousands in Rome, Italy, participate in a demonstration demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Silvio Burlusconi (2009)
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