Ted Cruz 1970 - Politician from Texas
- 1775 - A Continental naval fleet was organized in the rebellious American colonies under the command of Ezek Hopkins.
- 1894 - French army officer Alfred Dreyfus was convicted of treason in a court-martial that triggered worldwide charges of anti-Semitism. Dreyfus was eventually vindicated.
- 1895 - German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen made the first X-ray, of his wife's hand.
- 1961 - James Davis became the first U.S. soldier to die in Vietnam, while U.S. involvement was still limited to the provision of military advisers.
- 1984 - New York City resident Bernhard Goetz shot four black youths on a Manhattan subway. Goetz claimed they were about to rob him.
- 1989 - Romania's hard-line Communist ruler, Nicolae Ceausescu, was overthrown in a popular uprising.
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