Dorothea Dix 1802
- 1818 - A plan was passed by the U.S. Congress that the U.S. flag would have 13 red and white stripes and 20 stars and that a new star would be added for the each new state.
- 1841 - U.S. President William Henry Harrison, at the age of 68, became the first president to die in office. He had been sworn in only a month before he died of pneumonia.
- 1917 - The U.S. Senate voted 90-6 to enter World War I on the Allied side.
- 1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the age of 39.
- 1973 - In New York, the original World Trade Center twin towers opened. At the time they were the tallest building in the world.
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