Dave Barry 1947 - Humor writer
- 1863 - The U.S. Civil War Battle of Gettysburg, PA, ended after three days. It was a major victory for the North as Confederate troops retreated.
- 1903 - The first cable across the Pacific Ocean was spliced between Honolulu, Midway, Guam and Manila.
- 1922 - "Fruit Garden and Home" magazine was introduced. It was later renamed "Better Homes and Gardens."
- 1924 - Clarence Birdseye founded the General Seafood Corp.
- 1945 - The first civilian passenger car built since February 1942 was driven off the assembly line at the Ford Motor Company plant in Detroit, MI. Production had been diverted due to World War II.
- 1954 - Food rationing ended in Great Britain almost nine years after the end of World War II.
- 1986 - U.S. President Reagan presided over a ceremony in New York Harbor that saw the relighting of the renovated Statue of Liberty.
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