Abraham Lincoln (U.S.) 1809 - Sixteenth President of the United States
- 1878 - Frederick W. Thayer patented the baseball catcher’s mask.
- 1892 - In the U.S., President Lincoln's birthday was declared to be a national holiday.
- 1909 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
- 1934 - The Export-Import Bank was incorporated.
- 1971 - James Cash (J.C.) Penney died at the age of 95. The company closed for business for one-half day as a memorial to the company's founder.
- 1993 - In Liverpool, England, a 2-year-old boy, James Bulger, was lured away from his mother at a shopping mall and beaten to death. Two ten-year-old boys were responsible.
- 1998 - A U.S. federal judge declared that the presidential line-item veto was unconstitutional.
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