Charlie Chaplin (Sir Charles (Spencer) ‘Charlie’ Chaplin) 1889 - Actor, comedian
- 1818 - The U.S. Senate ratified Rush-Bagot amendment to form an unarmed U.S.-Canada border.
- 1917 - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin returned to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution after years of exile.
- 1947 - In Texas City, TX, the French ship Grandcamp, carrying ammonium nitrate fertilizer, caught fire and blew up. The explosions and resulting fires killed 576 people.
- 1968 - The Pentagon announced that troops would begin coming home from Vietnam.
- 1972 - Apollo 16 blasted off on a voyage to the moon. It was the fifth manned moon landing.
- 1992 - The House ethics committee listed 303 (mostly democrat) current and former lawmakers who had overdrawn their House bank accounts.
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