Victor Hugo 1802 - Author
- 1907 - The U.S. Congress raised their own pay to $7500.
- 1919 - In Arizona, the Grand Canyon was established as a National Park with an act of the U.S. Congress.
- 1930 - New York City installed traffic lights.
- 1986 - Corazon Aquino was inaugurated president of the Philippines. Long time President Ferdinand Marcos went into exile.
- 1993 - Six people were killed and more than a thousand injured when a van exploded in the parking garage beneath the World Trade Center in New York City. The bomb had been built by Islamic extremists.
- 1998 - In Oregon, a health panel rules that taxpayers must help to pay for doctor-assisted suicides.
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