Robert E. Lee 1807 - Confederate General during U.S. Civil War
- 1793 - King Louis XVI was tried by the French Convention, found guilty of treason and sentenced to the guillotine.
- 1883 - Thomas Edison's first village electric lighting system using overhead wires began operation in Roselle, NJ.
- 1915 - More than 20 people were killed when German zeppelins bombed England for the first time. The bombs were dropped on Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn.
- 1949 - The salary of the President of the United States was increased from $75,000 to $100,000 with an additional $50,000 expense allowance for each year in office.
- 1953 - Sixty-eight percent of all TV sets in the U.S. were tuned to CBS-TV, as Lucy Ricardo, of "I Love Lucy," gave birth to a baby boy.
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