Claire Booth Luce 1903
- 1804 - The formal ceremonies transferring the Louisiana Purchase from France to the U.S. took place in St. Louis.
- 1849 - Abraham Lincoln applied for a patent for a device to lift vessels over shoals by means of inflated cylinders.
- 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell made the first successful call with the telephone. He spoke the words "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
- 1903 - In New York's harbor, the disease-stricken ship Karmania was quarantined with six dead from cholera.
- 1910 - Slavery was abolished in China.
- 1966 - France withdrew from NATO's military command to protest U.S. dominance of the alliance and asked NATO to move its headquarters from Paris.
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