Louis Brandeis 1856- Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939
- 1775 - During the American Revolution, U.S. forces captured Montreal.
- 1789 - Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter to a friend in which he said, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
- 1805 - Johann George Lehner, a Viennese butcher, invented a recipe and called it the "frankfurter."
- 1971 - The U.S. spacecraft Mariner 9 became the first spacecraft to orbit another planet, Mars.
- 1982 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, DC.
- 1998 - Monica Lewinsky signed a deal with St. Martin's Press for the North American rights to her story about her affair with U.S. President Bill Clinton.
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