Emile Zola 1840 - Novelist
- 1889 - Charles Hall patented aluminum.
- 1902 - The first motion picture theatre opened in Los Angeles with the name Electric Theatre.
- 1910 - Karl Harris perfected the process for the artificial synthesis of rubber.
- 1914 - The U.S. Federal Reserve Board announced plans to divide the country into 12 districts.
- 1982 - Argentina invaded the British-owned Falkland Islands. The following June Britain took the islands back.
- 1989 - An editorial in the "New York Times" declared that the Cold War was over.
- 1996 - Lech Walesa resumed his old job as an electrician at the Gdansk shipyard. He was the former Solidarity union leader who became Poland's first post-war democratic president.
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