Winston Churchill (Britain) 1874
- 1782 - The United States and Britain signed preliminary peace articles in Paris, ending the Revolutionary War.
- 1858 - John Landis Mason received a patent for the first pepper shaker with a screw-on cap.
- 1897 - Thomas Edison's own motion picture projector had its first commercial exhibition.
- 1940 - Lucille Ball and Cuban musician Desi Arnaz were married.
- 1949 - Chinese Communists captured Chungking.
- 1998 - The Deutsche Bank AG announced that it would acquire Bankers Trust Corp. for $10.1 billion creating the world's largest financial institution.
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