Jesse Jackson 1941 - Civil rights leader
- 1918 - U.S. Corporal Alvin C. York almost single-handedly killed 25 German soldiers and captured 132 in the Argonne Forest in France.
- 1938 - The cover of "The Saturday Evening Post" portrayed Norman Rockwell.
- 1944 - "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" debuted on CBS radio.
- 1966 - The U.S. Government declared that LSD was dangerous and an illegal substance.
- 1970 - Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize for literature.
- 1993 - The U.S. government issued a report absolving the FBI of any wrongdoing in its final assault in Waco, TX, on the Branch Davidian compound. The fire that ended the siege killed as many as 85 people.
- 2002 - A federal judge approved U.S. President George W. Bush's request to reopen West Coast ports, to end a caustic 10-day labor lockout. The lockout was costing the U.S. economy an estimated $1 billion to $2 billion a day.
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