Paul Revere 1735, Betsy Ross (Elizabeth Griscom) 1752, George Washington Carver 1860
E.M. Forster 1879, J. Edgar Hoover (U.S.) 1895, Barry Goldwater 1909
1808 - The U.S. prohibited import of slaves from Africa.
1863 - U.S. President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that all slaves in the rebel states were free.
1902 - The first Tournament of Roses (later the Rose Bowl) collegiate football game was played in Pasadena, CA.
1934 - Alcatraz Island officially became a Federal Prison.
1959 - Fidel Castro overthrew the government of Fulgencio Batista, and seized power in Cuba.
1971 - Tobacco ads representing $20 million dollars in advertising were banned from TV and radio broadcast.
1984 - AT&T was broken up into 22 Bell System companies under terms of an antitrust agreement with the U.S. Federal government.
1990 - David Dinkins was sworn in as New York City's first black mayor.
1993 - Czechoslovakia split into two separate states, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The peaceful division had been engineered in 1992.
1994 - The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect.
1995 - The World Trade Organization came into existence. The group of 125 nations monitors global trade.
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