David O. Selznick 1902 - Film producer ("Gone with the Wind")
- 1676 - In Virginia, Bacon's Rebellion began. Nathaniel Badon led the the rebellion which pitted frontiersmen against the government.
- 1768 - The imprisonment of the journalist John Wilkes as an outlaw provoked violence in London. Wilkes was returned to parliament as a member for Middlesex.
- 1773 - The English Parliament passed the Tea Act, which taxed all tea in the U.S. colonies.
- 1869 - Central Pacific and Union Pacific Rail Roads meet in Promontory, UT. A golden spike was driven in at the celebration of the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S.
- 1908 - The first Mother's Day observance took place during a church service in Grafton, West Virginia.
- 1933 - The Nazis staged massive public book burnings in Germany.
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