Niccolo Machiavelli 1469 - Italian philosopher/writer
- 1802 - Washington, DC, was incorporated as a city.
- 1921 - West Virginia imposed the first state sales tax.
- 1937 - Margaret Mitchell won a Pulitzer Prize for "Gone With The Wind."
- 1948 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities were legally unenforceable.
- 1952 - The first airplane landed at the geographic North Pole.
- 1992 - Five days of rioting and looting ended in Los Angeles, CA. The riots, that killed 53 people, began after the acquittal of police officers in the beating of Rodney King.
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