Peggy Lee (Norma Deloris Egstrom) 1920 - Singer, actress
- 1868 - U.S. President Andrew Johnson was acquitted, by one vote, of all charges in his impeachment trial.
- 1908 - In Persia, the first oil strike was made in the Middle East.
- 1938 - The House Committee on Un-American Activities began its work of searching for subversives in the United States.
- 1940 - The evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, France, began during World War II.
- 1959 - The word "Frisbee" became a registered trademark of Wham-O.
- 1972 - The Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I) was signed by the U.S. and USSR. The short-term agreement put a freeze on the testing and deployment of intercontinental and submarine-launched ballistic missiles for a 5-year period.
- 1994 - U.S. President Clinton renewed trade privileges for China, and announced that his administration would no longer link China's trade status with its human rights record.
- 1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that police officers in high-speed chases are liable for bystander injuries only if their "actions shock the conscience."
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