Bat Masterson 1853 - U.S. Army scout, lawman, gambler, journalist
- 1789 - U.S. President Washington set aside this day to observe the adoption of the Constitution of the United States.
- 1825 - The first college social fraternity, Kappa Alpha, was formed at Union College in Schenectady, NY.
- 1922 - In Egypt, Howard Carter peered into the tomb of King Tutankhamen.
- 1940 - The Nazis forced 500,000 Jews of Warsaw, Poland to live within a walled ghetto.
- 1950 - China entered the Korean conflict forcing UN forces to retreat.
- 1990 - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev met with Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz at the Kremlin to demand that Iraq withdraw from Kuwait.
- 1997 - The U.S. (Clinton) and North Korea held high-level discussions at the State Department for the first time.
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