Milton Berle 1908 - Actor
- 1862 - The U.S. Congress authorized the Medal of Honor.
- 1954 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed a highway modernization program, with costs to be shared by federal and state governments.
- 1957 - The U.S. surgeon general, Leroy E. Burney, reported that there was a direct link between smoking and lung cancer.
- 1982 - "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial" broke all box-office records by surpassing the $100-million mark of ticket sales in the first 31 days of its opening.
- 1982 - The last of the distinctive-looking Checker taxicabs rolled off the assembly line in Kalamazoo, MI.
- 1990 - Russian republic president Boris N. Yeltsin announced his resignation from the the Soviet Communist Party.
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