Joseph Conrad 1857
- 1828 - Andrew Jackson was elected president of the United States.
- 1833 - Oberlin College in Ohio opened as the first truly coeducational school of higher education in the United States.
- 1931 - Alka Seltzer was sold for the first time.
- 1950 - Paul Harvey began his national radio broadcast.
- 1967 - In Cape Town, South Africa, a team of surgeons headed by Dr. Christian Barnard, performed the first human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky. Washkansky only lived 18 days.
- 1992 - The UN Security Council unanimously approved a U.S.-led military mission to help starving Somalians.
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