Boris Yeltsin 1931 - Russian president 1991-1999
- 1793 - France declared war on Britain and Holland.
- 1865 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signed a Joint Resolution submitting the proposed 13th Amendment to the states.
- 1884 - The first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary was published.
- 1900 - Eastman Kodak Co. introduced the $1 Brownie box camera.
- 1919 - The first Miss America was crowned in New York City.
- 1958 - The United Arab Republic was formed by a union of Egypt and Syria. It was broken 1961.
- 1996 - Visa and Mastercard announced security measures that would make it safe to shop on the Internet.
- 2003 - NASA's space shuttle Columbia exploded while re-entering the Earth's atmosphere. All seven astronauts on board were killed.
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