Emily Dickinson 1830 - Writer
- 1845 - British civil engineer Robert Thompson patented the first pneumatic tires.
- 1906 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for helping mediate an end to the Russo-Japanese War.
- 1948 - The United Nations General Assembly adopted its Universal Declaration on Human Rights.
- 1953 - Hugh Hefner published the first "Playboy" magazine with an investment of $7,600.
- 1958 - The first domestic passenger jet flight took place in the U.S. when 111 passengers flew from New York to Miami on a National Airlines Boeing 707.
- 1964 - In Oslo, Norway, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the youngest person to receive the award.
- 1994 - Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin received the Nobel Peace Prize. They pledged to pursue their mission of healing the Middle East.
- 1998 - The Palestinian leadership scrapped constitutional clauses that rejected Israel's existence.
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