Michael Caine 1933 - Actor ("Batman Beyond")
- 1629 - A Royal charter was granted to the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- 1794 - Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin.
- 1900 - U.S. currency went on the gold standard with the ratification of the Gold Standard Act.
- 1903 - The U.S. Senate ratified the Hay-Herran Treaty that guaranteed the U.S. the right to build a canal at Panama.
- 1914 - Henry Ford announced the new continuous motion method to assemble cars. The process decreased the time to make a car from 12½ hours to 93 minutes.
- 1936 - Adolf Hitler told a crowd of 300,000 that Germany's only judge is God and itself.
- 1964 - A Dallas jury found Jack Ruby guilty of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald.
- 1989 - Imported assault guns were banned in the U.S. under President George H.W. Bush.
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