Marlee Matlin 1965 - Actress
- 0079 - Mount Vesuvius erupted killing approximately 20,000 people. The cities of Pompeii, Stabiae and Herculaneum were buried in volcanic ash.
- 0410 - The Visigoths overran Rome. This event symbolized the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
- 1814 - Washington, DC, was invaded by British forces that set fire to the White House and Capitol.
- 1949 - The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) went into effect. The agreement was that an attack against on one of the parties would be considered "an attack against them all."
- 1954 - The Communist Party was virtually outlawed in the U.S. when the Communist Control Act went into effect.
- 1991 - Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as the head of the Communist Party.
- 1995 - Microsoft's "Windows 95" went on sale.
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