Burt Reynolds 1936 - Actor (Movie: "Smokey and the Bandit")
- 1752 - The Pennsylvania Hospital opened as the very first hospital in America.
- 1808 - Judge Jesse Fell experimented by burning anthracite coal to keep his house warm. He successfully showed how clean the coal burned and how cheaply it could be used as a heating fuel.
- 1812 - The term "gerrymandering" had its beginning when the governor of Massachusetts, Elbridge Gerry, signed a redistricting law that favored his party.
- 1943 - General Dwight David Eisenhower was selected to command the allied armies in Europe.
- 1975 - Margaret Thatcher became the first woman to head a major party in Britain when she was elected leader of the Conservative Party.
- 1979 - Nine days after the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Iran (after 15 years in exile) power was seized by his followers.
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