Alan Greenspan 1926 - Federal Reserve chairman
- 1820 - The Missouri Compromise was enacted by the U.S. Congress and signed by U.S. President James Monroe. The act admitted Missouri into the Union as a slave state, but prohibited slavery in the rest of the northern Louisiana Purchase territory.
- 1836 - The thirteen-day siege of the Alamo by Santa Anna and his army ended. The Mexican army of three thousand men defeated the 189 Texas volunteers.
- 1857 - The U.S. Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision ruled that blacks could not sue in federal court to be citizens.
- 1899 - Aspirin was patented by German researchers Felix Hoffman and Hermann Dreser.
- 1967 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announced his plan to establish a draft lottery.
- 1973 - U.S. President Richard Nixon imposed price controls on oil and gas.
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