James Jones 1921 - Soldier, journalist, author
- 1860 - Abraham Lincoln was elected to be the sixteenth president of the United States.
- 1861 - Jefferson Davis was elected as the president of the Confederacy in the U.S.
- 1894 - William C. Hooker received a patent for the mousetrap.
- 1923 - Jacob Schick was granted a patent for the electric shaver.
- 1952 - The first hydrogen bomb was exploded at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
- 1984 - For the first time in 193 years, the New York Stock Exchange remained open during a presidential election day.
- 1998 - The Islamic militant group Hamas exploded a car bomb in Jerusalem killing the two attackers and injuring 21 civilians.
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