Roy Scheider 1932 - Actor ("Jaws")
- 1775 - The U.S. Marines were organized under authority of the Continental Congress. The Marines went out of existence after the end of the Revolutionary War in April of 1783.
- 1954 - The Iwo Jima Memorial was dedicated in Arlington, VA.
- 1975 - The Edmund Fitzgerald, an ore-hauling ship, and its crew of 29 vanished during a storm in Lake Superior.
- 1980 - CBS News anchor Dan Rather claimed he had been kidnapped in a cab. It turned out that Rather had refused to pay the cab fare.
- 1982 - In Washington, DC, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was opened to visitors.
- 1995 - Nigeria's military rulers hanged playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa along with several other anti-government activists.
- 2001 - The World Trade Organization approved China's membership.
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