Adolf Hitler 1889 - German leader during World War II
- 1769 - Ottawa Chief Pontiac was murdered by an Illinois Indian in Cahokia.
- 1792 - France declared war on Austria, Prussia, and Sardinia. It was the start of the French Revolutionary wars.
- 1902 - Scientists Marie and Pierre Curie isolated the radioactive element radium.
- 1940 - The First electron microscope was demonstrated by RCA.
- 1942 - Pierre Laval, the premier of Vichy France, in a radio broadcast, establishes a policy of "true reconciliation with Germany."
- 1971 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the use of busing to achieve racial desegregation in schools.
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