Linus Pauling 1901 - Nobel prize for chemistry in 1954, Nobel peace prize winner in 1962
- 1827 - The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad became the first railroad incorporated for commercial transportation of people and freight.
- 1854 - The Republican Party was organized in Ripon, WI. About 50 slavery opponents began the new political group.
- 1885 - AT&T (American Telephone and Telegraph) was incorporated. The company was capitalized on only $100,000 and provided long distance service for American Bell.
- 1953 - In a Cambridge University laboratory, scientists James D. Watson and Francis H.C. Crick discovered the double-helix structure of DNA.
- 1986 - Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was assassinated in Stockholm.
- 1993 - U.S. Federal agents raided the compound of an armed religious cult in Waco, TX. The ATF had planned to arrest the leader of the Branch Davidians, David Koresh, on federal firearms charges. Four agents and six Davidians were killed and a 51-day standoff followed.
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