Upton Sinclair 1878.
- 1881 - Chester A. Arthur became the 21st president of the U.S. President James A. Garfield had died the day before.
- 1962 - James Meredith, a black student, was blocked from enrolling at the University of Mississippi by Governor Ross R. Barnett. Meredith was later admitted.
- 1967 - The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) was launched. It went out of service on November 27, 2008.
- 1977 - The first of the "boat people" arrived in San Francisco from Southeast Asia under a new U.S. resettlement program.
- 1995 - The (GOP controlled) U.S. House of Representatives voted to drop the national speed limit. This allowed the states to decide their own speed limits.
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