Jim Lovell 1928 - Astronaut
- 1857 - Frederick Laggenheim took the first photo of a solar eclipse.
- 1900 - The U.S. Socialist Party was formed in Indianapolis.
- 1902 - In Russia, 567 students were found guilty of "political disaffection." 95 students were exiled to Siberia.
- 1911 - In New York City, 146 women were killed in fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York City. The owners of the company were indicted on manslaughter charges because some of the employees had been behind locked doors in the factory. The owners were later acquitted and in 1914 they were ordered to pay damages to each of the twenty-three families that had sued.
- 1919 - The Paris Peace Commission adopted a plan to protect nations from the influx of foreign labor.
- 1954 - RCA manufactured its first color TV set and began mass production.
- 1983 - The U.S. Congress passed legislation to rescue the U.S. social security system from bankruptcy.
- 1996 - An 81-day standoff by the antigovernment Freemen began at a ranch near Joran, MT.
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