John Hersey (John Richard Hersey) 1914 - Writer, journalist
- 1885 - The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York City aboard the French ship Isere.
- 1924 - The Fascist militia marched into Rome.
- 1928 - Amelia Earhart began the flight that made her the first woman to successfully fly across the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1930 - The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Bill became law. It placed the highest tariff on imports to the U.S.
- 1950 - Dr. Richard H. Lawler performed the first kidney transplant in a 45-minute operation in Chicago, IL.
- 1953 - Soviet tanks fought thousands of Berlin workers that were rioting against the East German government.
- 1991 - The Parliament of South Africa repealed the Population Registration Act. The act had required that all South Africans for classified by race at birth.
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