Cornelius Vanderbilt 1794 - Entrepreneur (shipping and railroads)
- 1647 - Alse Young (Achsah Young or Alice Young), a resident of Windsor, CT, was executed for being a "witch." It was the first recorded American execution of a "witch."
- 1896 - 255 people were killed in St. Louis, MO, when a tornado struck.
- 1907 - The Bubonic Plague broke out in San Francisco.
- 1933 - Walt Disney's "Three Little Pigs" was first released.
- 1941 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed an "unlimited national emergency" amid rising world tensions.
- 1941 - The German battleship Bismarck was sunk by British naval and air forces. 2,300 people were killed.
- 1969 - Construction of Walt Disney World began in Florida.
- 1997 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the sexual harassment suit filed by Paula Jones could continue while President Clinton was in office.
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