Thomas Malthus 1766
- 1801 - The U.S. House of Representatives broke an electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. Jefferson was elected president and Burr became vice president.
- 1876 - Julius Wolff was credited with being the first to can sardines.
- 1878 - In San Francisco, CA, the first large city telephone exchange opened. It had only 18 phones.
- 1934 - The first high school automobile driver's education course was introduced in State College, PA.
- 1964 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that congressional districts within each state had to be approximately equal in population. (Westberry v. Sanders)
- 1985 - U.S. Postage stamp prices were raised from 20 cents to 22 cents for first class mail.
- 1995 - Black activist, Colin Ferguson was convicted of six counts of murder in the December 1993 Long Island Rail Road shootings. He was later sentenced to a minimum of 200 years in prison.
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