Chuck Yeager 1923 - United States Air Force General, test pilot
- 1633 - Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before the Inquisition.
- 1920 - The National Negro Baseball League was organized.
- 1935 - In Flemington, New Jersey, a jury found Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of the kidnapping and death of the infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. Hauptmann was later executed for the crimes.
- 1945 - During World War II, Allied aircraft began bombing the German city of Dresden.
- 1965 - Sixteen-year-old Peggy Fleming won the ladies senior figure skating title at Lake Placid, NY.
- 2000 - Charles M. Schulz's last original Sunday "Peanuts" comic strip appeared in newspapers. Schulz had died the day before.
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