Daniel Webster 1782 - American politician, Secretary of State under three presidents
- 1778 - English navigator Captain James Cook discovered the Hawaiian Islands, which he called the "Sandwich Islands."
- 1788 - The first English settlers arrived in Australia's Botany Bay to establish a penal colony.
- 1896 - The x-ray machine was exhibited for the first time.
- 1911 - For the first time an aircraft landed on a ship. Pilot Eugene B. Ely flew onto the deck of the USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco harbor.
- 1943 - U.S. commercial bakers stopped selling sliced bread. Only whole loaves were sold during the ban until the end of World War II.
- 1990 - In an FBI sting, Washington, DC, Mayor Marion Barry was arrested for drug possession. He was later convicted of a misdemeanor.
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