Michael Caine 1933 - Actor ("Batman Beyond")
- 1743 - First American town meeting was held at Boston's Faneuil Hall.
- 1794 - Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin.
- 1891 - The submarine Monarch laid telephone cable along the bottom of the English Channel to prepare for the first telephone links across the Channel.
- 1900 - U.S. currency went on the gold standard with the ratification of the Gold Standard Act.
- 1905 - French bankers refused to lend money to Russia until after their war.
- 1936 - Adolf Hitler told a crowd of 300,000 that Germany's only judge is God and itself.
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