Alexander Solzhenitsyn 1918 - Nobel Prize-winning author
- 1816 - Indiana was admitted to the Union as the 19th American state.
- 1844 - Dr. Horace Wells became the first person to have a tooth extracted after receiving an anesthetic for the dental procedure. Nitrous Oxide, or laughing gas, was the anesthetic.
- 1936 - Britain's King Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry American Wallis Warfield Simpson. He became the Duke of Windsor.
- 1941 - Germany and Italy declared war on the United States. The U.S in turn declared war on the two countries.
- 1961 - The first direct American military support for South Vietnam occurred when a U.S. aircraft carrier carrying Army helicopters arrived in Saigon.
- 1998 - Majority Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee pushed through three articles of impeachment against U.S. President Clinton.
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