Kate Smith 1909 - Singer
- 1707 - England, Wales and Scotland were united to form Great Britain.
- 1867 - Reconstruction in the South began with black voter registration.
- 1877 - U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes withdrew all Federal troops from the South, ending Reconstruction.
- 1927 - Adolf Hitler held his first Nazi meeting in Berlin.
- 1931 - The Empire State Building in New York was dedicated and opened. It was 102 stories tall and was the tallest building in the world at the time.
- 1948 - The People's Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea) was proclaimed.
- 1960 - Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union. Powers was taken prisoner.
- 1961 - Fidel Castro announced there would be no more elections in Cuba.
- 1971 - The National Railroad Passenger Corp. (Amtrak) went into service. It was established by the U.S. Congress to run the nation's intercity railroads.
- 1992 - On the third day of the Los Angeles riots resulting from the Rodney King beating trial. King appeared in public to appeal for calm, he asked, "Can we all get along?"
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