George Foreman 1949 - Boxer
- 1776 - "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine was published.
- 1840 - The penny post, whereby mail was delivered at a standard charge rather than paid for by the recipient, began in Britain.
- 1870 - John D. Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil.
- 1951 - Donald Howard Rogers piloted the first passenger jet on a trip from Chicago to New York City.
- 1981 - In El Salvador, Marxist insurgents launched a "final offensive".
- 1990 - Chinese Premier Li Peng ended martial law in Beijing after seven months. He said that crushing pro-democracy protests had saved China from "the abyss of misery."
- 1994 - In Manassas, VA, Lorena Bobbitt went on trial. She had been charged with maliciously wounding her husband John. She was acquitted by reason of temporary insanity.
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