Groucho (Julius) Marx 1890 - "Marx Brothers" movies and his quiz show "You Bet Your Life"
- 1836 - Charles Darwin returned to England after 5 years of acquiring knowledge around the world about fauna, flora, wildlife and geology. He used the information to develop his "theory of evolution" which he unveiled in his 1859 book entitled The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- 1919 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed.
- 1937 - Warner Bros. released "Love Is on the Air." Ronald Reagan made his acting debut in the motion picture. He was 26 years old.
- 1944 - The Nazis crushed the Warsaw Uprising.
- 1955 - "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" debuted on CBS-TV.
- 1959 - "The Twilight Zone" debuted on CBS-TV. The show ran for 5 years for a total of 154 episodes.
- 2001 - NATO, for the first time, invoked a treaty clause that stated that an attack on one member is an attack on all members. The act was in response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States.
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