Sir Thomas More 1478, John Deere 1804, Sinclair Lewis 1885
Gay Talese 1932, Garth Brooks 1962, Ashton Kutcher 1978
1795 - The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified.
1893 - Elisha Gray patented a machine called the telautograph. It automatically signed autographs to documents.
1913 - The Turks lost 5,000 men in a battle with the Bulgarian army in Gallipoli.
1922 - DeWitt and Lila Acheson Wallace offered 5,000 copies of "Reader's Digest" magazine for the first time.
1943 - The U.S. government announced that shoe rationing would go into effect in two days.
1944 - During World War II, the Germans launched a counteroffensive at Anzio, Italy.
1984 - Space shuttle astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart made the first untethered space walk.
1985 - "New York, New York" became the official anthem of New York City.
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