James Madison 1751 - Fourth president of the United States.
- 1521 - Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines. He was killed the next month by natives.
- 1802 - The U.S. Congress established the West Point Military Academy in New York.
- 1926 - Physicist Robert H. Goddard launched the first liquid-fuel rocket.
- 1928 - The U.S. planned to send 1,000 more Marines to Nicaragua.
- 1964 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson submitted a $1 billion war on poverty program to Congress.
- 1998 - Rwanda began mass trials for 1994 genocide with 125,000 suspects for 500,000 murders.
- 1999 - The 20 members of the European Union's European Commission announced their resignations amid allegations of corruption and financial mismanagement.
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