Albert Camus 1913 - Author, journalist
- 1811 - The Shawnee Indians of chief Tecumseh were defeated by William Henry Harrison at the Battle of Wabash (or (Tippecanoe).
- 1837 - In Alton, IL, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy was shot to death by a mob (Democrat supporters of slavery) while trying to protect his printing shop from a third destruction.
- 1874 - The Republican party of the U.S. was first symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly.
- 1917 - Russia's Bolshevik Revolution took place. The provisional government of Alexander Kerensky was overthrown by forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
- 1940 - The middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington state collapsed during a windstorm. The suspension bridge had opened to traffic on July 1, 1940.
- 1973 - New Jersey became the first U.S. state to permit girls to play on Little League baseball teams.
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