Jacqueline Bisset 1944
- 1759 - The French were defeated by the British on the Plains of Abraham in the final French and Indian War.
- 1789 - The United States Government took out its first loan.
- 1922 - In El Azizia, Libya, the highest shade temperature was recorded at 136.4 degrees Fahrenheit.
- 1948 - Republican Margaret Chase Smith was elected to the U.S. Senate and became the first woman to serve in both houses of the U.S. Congress.
- 1960 - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission banned payola.
- 1988 - Forecasters reported that Hurricane Gilbert's barometric pressure measured 26.13. It was the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere.
- 1994 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signed a $30 billion crime bill into law.
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