Yogi Berra 1925 - Baseball player, manager
- 1847 - William Clayton invented the odometer.
- 1885 - In the Battle of Batoche, French Canadians rebelled against the Canadian government.
- 1888 - Charles Sherrill of the Yale track team became the first runner to use the crouching start for a fast break in a foot race.
- 1949 - The Soviet Union announced an end to the Berlin Blockade.
- 1975 - U.S. merchant ship Mayaguez was seized by Cambodian forces in international waters.
- 1978 - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that they would no longer exclusively name hurricanes after women.
- 2002 - Former U.S. President Carter arrived in Cuba for a visit with Fidel Castro. It was the first time a U.S. head of state, in or out of office, had gone to the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.
- 2003 - In Texas, fifty-nine Democratic lawmakers went into hiding over a dispute with Republican's over a congressional redistricting plan.
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