Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809
- 1842 - The Treaty of Nanking was signed by the British and the Chinese. The treaty ended the first Opium War and gave the island of Hong Kong to Britain.
- 1885 - The first prizefight under the Marquis of Queensberry Rules was held in Cincinnati, OH. John L. Sullivan defeated Dominick McCaffery in six rounds.
- 1886 - In New York City, Chinese Ambassador Li Hung-chang's chef invented chop suey.
- 1944 - During the continuing celebration of the liberation of France from the Nazis, 15,000 American troops marched down the Champs Elysees in Paris.
- 1990 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, in a television interview, declared that America could not defeat Iraq.
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