Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919 - Prime Minister of Canada
- 1767 - The Mason-Dixon line was agreed upon. It was the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania.
- 1842 - Samuel Finley Breese Morse laid his first telegraph cable.
- 1867 - The U.S. took formal possession of Alaska from Russia. The land was purchased of a total of $7 million dollars (2 cents per acre).
- 1968 - Two black athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, were suspended by the U.S. Olympic Committee for giving a "black power" salute during a ceremony in Mexico City.
- 1989 - The space shuttle Atlantis was launched on a mission that included the deployment of the Galileo space probe.
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