Confucius 551 B.C. - Teacher and philosopher, Georges Clemenceau (France) 1841, Ed Sullivan 1902
Alfred Gerald Caplin (Al Capp) 1909, Arnold Stang 1925, Brigitte Bardot 1934
1781 - During the Revolutionary War, American forces began the siege on Yorktown, VA.
1850 - The U.S. Navy abolished flogging as a form of punishment.
1939 - During World War II, Germany and the Soviet Union agreed upon a plan on the division of Poland.
1961 - "Dr. Kildare" premiered on NBC-TV.
1961 - "Hazel" premiered on NBC-TV.
1974 - First Lady Betty Ford underwent a mastectomy to remove a lump in her breast.
1978 - Heavy fighting occurred in Lebanon between Syrian peacekeeping troops and Lebanese Christian militiamen.
1991 - In response to U.S. President Bush's reduction of U.S. nuclear arms Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev promised to reciprocate.
1995 - Yasser Arafat of the PLO and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin signed an accord that transferred control of the West Bank.
2000 - The U.S. Federal Drug Administration approved the use of RU-486 in the United States. The pill is used to induce an abortion.
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