Joseph McCarthy 1909 - Politician (U.S. Senator from Wisconsin)
- 1851 - Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick" was first published in the U.S.
- 1881 - Charles J. Guiteau's trial began for the assassination of U.S. President Garfield. Guiteau was convicted and hanged the following year.
- 1935 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed the Philippine Islands a free commonwealth after its new constitution was approved. The Tydings-McDuffie Act planned for the Phillipines to be completely independent by July 4, 1946.
- 1956 - The USSR crushed the Hungarian uprising.
- 1972 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above the 1,000 (1,003.16) level for the first time.
- 1979 - U.S. President Carter froze all Iranian assets in the United States and U.S. banks abroad in response to the taking of 63 American hostages at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran.
- 1994 - U.S. (under Clinton) experts visited North Korea's main nuclear complex for the first time under an accord that opened such sites to outside inspections.
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