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David Rockefeller 1915 - Banker
- 1665 - England installed a municipal government in New York. It was the former Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.
- 1839 - Abner Doubleday created the game of baseball, according to the legend.
- 1897 - Carl Elsener patented his penknife. The object later became known as the Swiss army knife.
- 1975 - Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was found guilty of corrupt election practices in 1971.
- 1982 - 75,000 morons rallied against nuclear weapons in New York City's Central Park. Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, and Linda Ronstadt were in attendance.
- 1987 - U.S. President Reagan publicly challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
- 1991 - Russians went to the election polls and elected Boris N. Yeltsin as the president of their republic.
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