Albert Sabin 1906
- 1498 - Michelangelo was commissioned to make the "Pieta."
- 1847 - Liberia was proclaimed as an independent republic.
- 1920 - The 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect. The amendment prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex in the voting booth.
- 1934 - Adolf Hitler demanded that France turn over their Saar region to Germany.
- 1939 - The first televised major league baseball games were shown. The event was a double-header between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers.
- 1945 - The Japanese were given surrender instructions on the U.S. battleship Missouri at the end of World War II.
- 1957 - The first Edsel made by the Ford Motor Company rolled of the assembly line.
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