Gilbert Keith Chesterton 1874 - Writer of philosophy, ontolory, poetry
- 1765 - Patrick Henry denounced the Stamp Act before Virginia's House of Burgesses.
- 1790 - Rhode Island became the last of the original thirteen colonies to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
- 1849 - A patent for lifting vessels was granted to Abraham Lincoln.
- 1912 - Fifteen women were dismissed from their jobs at the Curtis Publishing Company in Philadelphia, PA, for dancing the Turkey Trot while on the job.
- 1922 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that organized baseball was a sport, not subject to antitrust laws.
- 1953 - Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became first men to reach the top of Mount Everest.
- 1990 - Boris Yeltsin was elected president of the Russian republic by the Russian parliament.
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