- 1788 - Almost the entire city of New Orleans, LA, was destroyed by fire. 856 buildings were destroyed.
- 1790 - Thomas Jefferson reported to U.S. President George Washington as the new secretary of state.
- 1857 - An earthquake hit Tokyo killing about 107,000.
- 1928 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge gave the Congressional Medal of Honor to Charles Lindbergh for his first trans-Atlantic flight.
- 1963 - Alcatraz Island, the federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay, CA, closed.
- 1965 - More than 3,000 civil rights demonstrators led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began a march from Selma to Montgomery, AL.
- 1972 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states could not require one year of residency for voting eligibility.
- 1980 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced to the U.S. Olympic Team that they would not participate in the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow as a boycott against Soviet intervention in Afghanistan.
"Tell me again why you want to sequester a gas that is improving the Earth's ecosystems and benefiting humanity??
The chart shows how much each crop would benefit from an increase of 300 ppm in CO2... an average increase of 46% in crop biomass.
This is a solution in search of a problem."