Russell Baker 1925 - Newspaper columnist
- 1720 - In Nebraska, Pawnees and Otoes attacked the Spanish Villasur Expedition. The Spanish defeat makred the end of their influence on the central Great Plains.
- 1888 - A patent for the electric meter was granted to Oliver B. Shallenberger.
- 1900 - An international force, consisting of eight nations, lifted the siege of Peking. It was the end to the Boxer Rebellion, which was aimed at purging China of foreigners.
- 1919 - About 1 million tons of ice and rock broke off of a glacier near Mont Blanc, France. Nine people were killed in the incident.
- 1935 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law. The act created unemployment insurance and pension plans for the elderly.
- 1992 - The U.S. announced that emergency airlifts of food to Somalia would begin. The action was being taken to stop mass deaths due to starvation.
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