Alfred Joyce Kilmer 1886
- 1735 - In London, French surgeon Claudius Amyand performed the first successful appendectomy at St. George's Hospital. The patient was an 11-year old boy that had swallowed a pin.
- 1865 - The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. The amendment abolished slavery in the U.S.
- 1877 - Thomas Edison demonstrated the first gramophone, with a recording of himself reciting Mary Had a Little Lamb.
- 1926 - In Italy, Benito Mussolini introduced a tax on bachelors.
- 1973 - Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as the vice-president of the United States after vice-president Spiro Agnew resigned.
- 1983 - In Jerusalem, a bomb planted on a bus exploded killing six Israelis and wounding 44.
- 1998 - In Venezuela, former Lieutenant Colonel Hugo Chavez was elected president. He had staged a bloody coup attempt against the government six years earlier.
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