Emile Zola 1840 - Novelist
- 1513 - Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sighted Florida. The next day he went ashore.
- 1889 - Charles Hall patented aluminum.
- 1910 - Karl Harris perfected the process for the artificial synthesis of rubber
- 1917 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson presented a declaration of war against Germany to the U.S. Congress.
- 1963 - Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King began the first non-violent campaign in Birmingham, AL.
- 1982 - Argentina invaded the British-owned Falkland Islands. The following June Britain took the islands back.
- 1985 - The NCAA Rules Committee adopted the 45-second shot clock for men’s basketball to begin in the 1986 season.
- 1987 - The speed limit on U.S. interstate highways was increased to 65 miles per hour in limited areas.
- 1996 - Lech Walesa resumed his old job as an electrician at the Gdansk shipyard. He was the former Solidarity union leader who became Poland's first post-war democratic president.
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