William F. Buckley, Jr. 1925
- 1859 - Charles Darwin, a British naturalist, published "On the Origin of Species." It was the paper in which he explained his theory of evolution through the process of natural selection.
- 1871 - The National Rifle Association was incorporated in the U.S.
- 1874 - Joseph F. Glidden was granted a patent for a barbed fencing material.
- 1903 - Clyde J. Coleman received the patent for an electric self-starter for an automobile.
- 1940 - Nazis closed off the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, Poland. Over the next three years the population dropped from 350,000 to 70,000 due to starvation, disease and deportations to concentration camps.
- 1963 - Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald live on national television.
- 1971 - Hijacker Dan Cooper, known as D.B. Cooper, parachuted from a Northwest Airlines 727 over Washington state with $200,000 in ransom.
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