Lily Tomlin 1939 - Actress, comedian
- 1878 - Emma M. Nutt became the first female telephone operator in the U.S. The company was the Telephone Dispatch Company of Boston.
- 1887 - Emile Berliner filed for a patent for his invention of the lateral-cut, flat-disk gramophone. It is a device that is better known as a record player. Thomas Edison made the idea work.
- 1922 - The first daily news program on radio was "The Radio Digest," on WBAY radio in New York City, NY.
- 1939 - World War II began when Germany invaded Poland.
- 1942 - A federal judge in Sacramento, CA, upheld the wartime detention of Japanese-Americans as well as Japanese nationals.
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