Mort Sahl (Morton Lyon "Mort" Sahl) 1927 - Comedian, actor
- 1935 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order that created the Rural Electrification Administration to provide emergency loans.
- 1934 - A severe two-day dust storm stripped the topsoil from the great plains of the U.S. and created a "Dust Bowl." The storm was one of many.
- 1947 - The creation of the tubeless tire was announced by the B.F. Goodrich Company.
- 1949 - Siam changed its name to Thailand.
- 1960 - Israeli soldiers captured Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 1997 - In New York, Garry Kasparov, world chess champion, lost his first ever multi-game match. He lost to IBM's chess computer Deep Blue. It was the first time a computer had beaten a world-champion player.
- 2020 - Twitter announced that it would add a warning label to any tweet they decided contained disputed or misleading information about the coronavirus.
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