Marlene Dietrich 1901 - Actress, singer
- 1831 - Charles Darwin set out on a voyage to the Pacific aboard the HMS Beagle. Darwin's discoveries during the voyage helped him form the basis of his theories on evolution.
- 1845 - Dr. Crawford Williamson Long used anesthesia for childbirth for the first time. The event was the delivery of his own child in Jefferson, GA.
- 1945 - The World Bank was created with an agreement signed by 28 nations.
- 1947 - The children's television program "Howdy Doody," hosted by Bob Smith, made its debut on NBC.
- 1978 - Spain adopted a new constitution and became a democracy after 40 years of dictatorship.
- 1985 - Palestinian guerrillas opened fire inside the Rome and Vienna airports. A total of twenty people were killed, including five of the attackers, who were slain by police and security personnel.
- 2002 - North Korea ordered U.N. nuclear inspectors to leave the country and said that it would restart a laboratory capable of producing plutonium for nuclear weapons.
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