David Rockefeller 1915 - Banker
- 1897 - Carl Elsener patented his penknife. The object later became known as the Swiss army knife.
- 1901 - Cuba agreed to become an American protectorate by accepting the Platt Amendment.
- 1935 - U.S. Senator Huey Long of Louisiana made the longest speech on Senate record. The speech took 15 1/2 hours and was filled by 150,000 words.
- 1979 - Bryan Allen flew the Gossamer Albatross, man powered, across the English Channel.
- 1982 - 75,000 people rallied against nuclear weapons in New York City's Central Park. Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, and Linda Ronstadt were in attendance.
- 1987 - U.S. President Reagan publicly challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
- 1991 - Russians went to the election polls and elected Boris N. Yeltsin as the president of their republic.
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