John Harrison 1693 - Carpenter, clockmaker, inventor of the marine chronometer
- 1882 - The American outlaw Jesse James was shot in the back and killed by Robert Ford for a $5,000 reward. There was later controversy over whether it was actually Jesse James that had been killed.
- 1910 - Alaska's Mt. McKinley, the highest mountain in North America was climbed.
- 1942 - The Japanese began their all-out assault on the U.S. and Filipino troops at Bataan.
- 1946 - Lt. General Masaharu Homma, the Japanese commander responsible for the Bataan Death March, was executed in the Philippines.
- 1948 - U.S. President Harry Truman signed the Marshall Plan to revive war-torn Europe. It was $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
- 1953 - "TV Guide" was published for the first time.
- 1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "mountaintop" speech just 24 hours before he was assassinated.
- 1986 - The U.S. national debt hit $2 trillion.
- 1996 - Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski was arrested. He pled guilty in January 1998 to five Unabomber attacks in exchange for a life sentence without chance for parole.
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