Boris Yeltsin 1931 - Russian president 1991-1999
- 1793 - France declared war on Britain and Holland.
- 1862 - "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," by Julia Ward Howe was first published in the "Atlantic Monthly."
- 1884 - The first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary was published.
- 1900 - Eastman Kodak Co. introduced the $1 Brownie box camera.
- 1919 - The first Miss America was crowned in New York City.
- 1968 - During the Vietnam War, South Vietnamese National Police Chief Brig. Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan executed a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head. The scene was captured in a news photograph.
- 2003 - NASA's space shuttle Columbia exploded while re-entering the Earth's atmosphere. All seven astronauts on board were killed.
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