Larry Flynt 1942
- 1512 - Michelangelo's paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel were first exhibited to the public.
- 1765 - The British Parliament enacted The Stamp Act in the American colonies. The act was repealed in March of 1766 on the same day that the Parliament passed the Declaratory Acts which asserted that the British government had free and total legislative power of the colonies.
- 1848 - The first medical school for women, founded by Samuel Gregory, opened in Boston, MA. The Boston Female Medical School later merged with Boston University School of Medicine.
- 1870 - The U.S. Weather Bureau made its first meteorological observations using 24 locations that provided reports via telegraph.
- 1879 - Thomas Edison executed his first patent application for a high-resistance carbon filament (U.S. Pat. 223,898).
- 1950 - Two Puerto Rican nationalists tried to assassinate U.S. President Harry Truman. One of the men was killed when they tried to force their way into Blair House in Washington, DC.
- 1952 - The United States exploded the first hydrogen bomb on Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
- 1954 - Algeria began to rebel against French rule.
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