Jakob Grimm 1785, Louis Braille 1809 - Inventor of a reading system for the blind, Charles "Tom Thumb" Stratton 1838
Jane Wyman 1914 - Actress, Floyd Patterson 1935 - Heavyweight boxing champion, Dyan Cannon 1939 - Actress
1884 - The socialist Fabian Society was founded in London.
1885 - Dr. William Grant performed the first successful appendectomy. The patient was Mary Gartside.
1896 - Utah became the 45th U.S. state.
1944 - The attack on Monte Cassino was launched by the British Fifth Army in Italy.
1951 - During the Korean conflict, North Korean and Communist Chinese forces captured the city of Seoul.
1965 - In his State of the Union address, U.S. President Johnson proclaimed the building of the "Great Society."
1999 - Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura was sworn in as Minnesota's 37th governor.
2006 - Nancy Pelosi became Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. She was the first woman to hold the position.
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