Daniel Webster 1782 - American politician, Secretary of State under three presidents
- 1778 - English navigator Captain James Cook discovered the Hawaiian Islands, which he called the "Sandwich Islands."
- 1788 - The first English settlers arrived in Australia's Botany Bay to establish a penal colony. The group moved north eight days later and settled at Port Jackson.
- 1911 - For the first time an aircraft landed on a ship. Pilot Eugene B. Ely flew onto the deck of the USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco harbor.
- 1939 - Louis Armstrong and his orchestra recorded "Jeepers Creepers."
- 1943 - U.S. commercial bakers stopped selling sliced bread. Only whole loaves were sold during the ban until the end of World War II.
- 1975 - "The Jeffersons" debuted on CBS-TV.
- 1990 - A jury in Los Angeles, CA, acquitted former preschool operators Raymond Buckey and his mother, Peggy McMartin Buckey, of 52 child molestation charges.
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