Daniel Boone 1734, James Knox Polk (U.S.) 1795, Warren G. Harding (U.S.) 1865
Burt Lancaster 1913, Patrick J. Buchanan 1938, David Schwimmer 1966 - Actor ("Friends")
1783 - U.S. Gen. George Washington gave his "Farewell Address to the Army" near Princeton, NJ.
1917 - British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour expressed support for a "national home" for the Jews of Palestine.
1921 - Margaret Sanger's National Birth Control League combined with Mary Ware Denetts Voluntary Parenthood League to form the American Birth Control League.
1930 - The DuPont Company announced the first synthetic rubber. It was named DuPrene.
1947 - Howard Hughes flew his "Spruce Goose," a huge wooden airplane, for eight minutes in California. It was the plane's first and only flight. The "Spruce Goose," nicknamed because of the white-gray color of the spruce used to build it, never went into production.
1948 - Harry S. Truman defeated Thomas E. Dewey for the U.S. presidency. The Chicago Tribune published an early edition that had the headline "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN." The Truman victory surprised many polls and newspapers.
1983 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan signed a bill establishing a federal holiday on the third Monday of January in honor of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
1992 - Magic Johnson retired from the NBA again, this time for good because of fear due to his HIV infection.
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