Joseph Heller 1923 - Novelist, short story writer, playwright
- 1707 - England, Wales and Scotland were united to form Great Britain.
- 1867 - Reconstruction in the South began with black voter registration.
- 1898 - The U.S. Navy under Dewey defeated the Spanish fleet at Manila Bay in the Philippines.
- 1931 - The Empire State Building in New York was dedicated and opened. It was 102 stories tall and was the tallest building in the world at the time.
- 1937 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed an act of neutrality, keeping the United States out of World War II.
- 1948 - The People's Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea) was proclaimed.
- 1952 - Production of Mr. Potato Head began.
- 1960 - Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union. Powers was taken prisoner.
- 1961 - Fidel Castro announced there would be no more elections in Cuba.
- 1986 - The Tass News Agency reported the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident.
- 1992 - On the third day of the Los Angeles riots resulting from the Rodney King beating trial. King appeared in public to appeal for calm, he asked, "Can we all get along?"
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