Ferdinand Porsche 1875
- 1783 - The Revolutionary War between the U.S. and Great Britain ended with the Treaty of Paris.
- 1838 - Frederick Douglass boarded a train in Maryland on his way to freedom from being a slave.
- 1935 - Sir Malcolm Campbell became the first person to drive an automobile over 300 miles an hour. He reached 304.331 MPH on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.
- 1939 - British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, in a radio broadcast, announced that Britain and France had declared war on Germany. Germany had invaded Poland on September 1.
- 1966 - The television series "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" ended after 14 years.
- 1989 - The U.S. began shipping military aircraft and weapons, worth $65 million, to Columbia in its fight against drug lords.
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