Janet Guthrie 1938 - Auto racer
- 0322 BC - Aristotle, the Greek philosopher, died.
- 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell received a patent (U.S. Patent No. 174,465) for his telephone.
- 1908 - Cincinnati's Mayor Leopold Markbreit announced before the city council that, "Women are not physically fit to operate automobiles."
- 1933 - The board game Monopoly was invented.
- 1936 - Hitler sent German troops into the Rhineland in violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles.
- 1975 - The U.S. Senate revised the filibuster rule. The new rule allowed 60 senators to limit debate instead of the previous two-thirds.
- 2002 - A federal judge awarded Anna Nicole Smith more than $88 million in damages. The ruling was the latest in a legal battle over the estate of Smith's late husband, J. Howard Marshall II.
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