Alexander Solzhenitsyn 1918 - Nobel Prize-winning author
- 1769 - Edward Beran of London patented venetian blinds.
- 1844 - Dr. Horace Wells became the first person to have a tooth extracted after receiving an anesthetic for the dental procedure. Nitrous Oxide, or laughing gas, was the anesthetic.
- 1941 - Germany and Italy declared war on the United States. The U.S in turn declared war on the two countries.
- 1961 - The first direct American military support for South Vietnam occurred when a U.S. aircraft carrier carrying Army helicopters arrived in Saigon.
- 1985 - General Electric Company agreed to buy RCA Corporation for $6.3 billion. Also included in the deal was NBC Radio and Television.
- 1997 - More than 150 countries agreed at a global warming conference in Kyoto, Japan, to control the Earth's "greenhouse gases."
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