Edgar Rice Burroughs 1875 - Writer (Tarzan of the Apes)
- 1807 - Former U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr was found innocent of treason.
- 1878 - Emma M. Nutt became the first female telephone operator in the U.S. The company was the Telephone Dispatch Company of Boston.
- 1887 - Emile Berliner filed for a patent for his invention of the lateral-cut, flat-disk gramophone. It is a device that is better known as a record player. Thomas Edison made the idea work.
- 1939 - World War II began when Germany invaded Poland.
- 1969 - Col. Moammar Gadhafi came into power in Libya after the government was overthrown.
- 1998 - J.K. Rowling's book "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" was released in the U.S. This was the first book in the Harry Potter series.
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