Malcolm X (Malcolm Little) 1925 - African-American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist
- 1643 - Delegates from four New England colonies met in Boston to form a confederation.
- 1856 - Anti-democrat party, U.S. Senator Charles Sumner spoke out against slavery.
- 1911 - The first American criminal conviction that was based on fingerprint evidence occurred in New York City.
- 1921 - The U.S. Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, which established national quotas for immigrants.
- 1926 - Benito Mussolini announced that democracy was deceased. Rome became a fascist state.
- 1935 - The National Football League (NFL) adopted an annual college draft to begin in 1936.
- 1962 - Marilyn Monroe performed a sultry rendition of "Happy Birthday" for boyfriend, U.S. President John F. Kennedy. The event was a fund-raiser at New York's Madison Square Garden.
- 1974 - Erno Rubik invented the puzzle what would later become known as the Rubik's Cube.
- 1992 - U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle criticized the CBS sitcom "Murphy Brown" for having its title character decide to bear a child out of wedlock.
- 1998 - In Russia, strikes broke out over unpaid wages.
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