Joseph Conrad 1857-- Author
- 1828 - Andrew Jackson was elected president of the United States.
- 1835 - In Rhode Island, the Manufacturer Mutual Fire Insurance Company issued the first fire insurance policy.
- 1931 - Alka Seltzer was sold for the first time.
- 1948 - The "Pumpkin Papers" came to public light. The House Un-American Activities Committee announced that former Communist spy Whittaker Chambers had produced microfilm of secret documents hidden inside a pumpkin on his Maryland farm.
- 1950 - Paul Harvey began his national radio broadcast.
- 1967 - In Cape Town, South Africa, a team of surgeons headed by Dr. Christian Barnard, performed the first human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky. Washkansky only lived 18 days.
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