Spike Lee 1957 - Movie director/nasty person
- 1760 - The great fire of Boston destroyed 349 buildings.
- 1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book "Uncle Tom’s Cabin," subtitled "Life Among the Lowly," was first published.
- 1854 - The Republican Party was organized in Ripon, WI. About 50 slavery opponents began the new political group.
- 1897 - The first intercollegiate basketball game that used five players per team was held. The contest was Yale versus Pennsylvania. Yale won by a score of 32-10.
- 1933 - The first German concentration camp was completed at Dachau.
- 1989 - A Washington, DC, district court judge blocked a curfew imposed by Mayor Barry and the City Council.
- 1995 - In Tokyo, 12 people were killed and more than 5,500 others were sickened when packages containing the nerve gas Sarin was released on five separate subway trains. The terrorists belonged to a doomsday cult in Japan.
- 2003 - U.S. and British forces invaded Iraq from Kuwait.
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