Albert Camus 1913 - Author, journalist
- 1837 - In Alton, IL, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy was shot to death by a mob (supporters of slavery) while trying to protect his printing shop from a third destruction.
- 1874 - The Republican party of the U.S. was first symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly.
- 1917 - Russia's Bolshevik Revolution took place. The provisional government of Alexander Kerensky was overthrown by forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
- 1963 - Elston Howard, of the New York Yankees, became the first black player to be named the American League's Most Valuable Player.
- 1973 - New Jersey became the first U.S. state to permit girls to play on Little League baseball teams.

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