Milton Berle 1908 - Actor
- 1543 - England's King Henry VIII married his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr.
- 1862 - The U.S. Congress authorized the Medal of Honor.
- 1870 - The first rotary can opener with a cutting wheel was patented by William W. Lyman.
- 1954 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed a highway modernization program, with costs to be shared by federal and state governments.
- 1957 - The U.S. surgeon general, Leroy E. Burney, reported that there was a direct link between smoking and lung cancer.
- 1982 - The last of the distinctive-looking Checker taxicabs rolled off the assembly line in Kalamazoo, MI.
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