Daniel Webster 1782 - American politician, Secretary of State under three presidents
- 1778 - English navigator Captain James Cook discovered the Hawaiian Islands, which he called the "Sandwich Islands."
- 1943 - During World War II, the Soviets announced that they had broken the Nazi siege of Leningrad, which had began in September of 1941.
- 1943 - U.S. commercial bakers stopped selling sliced bread. Only whole loaves were sold during the ban until the end of World War II..
- 1990 - A jury in Los Angeles, CA, acquitted former preschool operators Raymond Buckey and his mother, Peggy McMartin Buckey, of 52 child molestation charges.
- 1990 - In an FBI sting, Washington, DC, Mayor Marion Barry was arrested for drug possession. He was later convicted of a misdemeanor.
- 2000 - The Chinese web services company Baidu, Inc. was incorporated in Beijing.
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