Maria Montessori 1870
- 1881 - The first tennis championships in the U.S. were played.
- 1887 - The kinetoscope was patented by Thomas Edison. The device was used to produce moving pictures.
- 1920 - The first news program to be broadcast on radio was aired. The station was 8MK in Detroit, MI.
- 1920 - John Lloyd Wright was issued a patent for "Toy-Cabin Construction," which are known as Lincoln Logs. (U.S. patent 1,351,086)
- 1964 - California officially became the most populated state in America.
- 1990 - U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar met with the Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz to try and negotiate a solution to the crisis in the Persian Gulf.
- 1993 - Russia withdrew its last soldiers from Lithuania.
- 1994 - Russia officially ended its military presence in the former East Germany and the Baltics after a half-century.
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