Emile Zola 1840 - Novelist
- 1513 - Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sighted Florida. The next day he went ashore.
- 1889 - Charles Hall patented aluminum.
- 1917 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson presented a declaration of war against Germany to the U.S. Congress.
- 1935 - Sir Watson-Watt was granted a patent for RADAR.
- 1958 - The National Advisory Council on Aeronautics was renamed NASA.
- 1982 - Argentina invaded the British-owned Falkland Islands. The following June Britain took the islands back.
- 1989 - An editorial in the "New York Times" declared that the Cold War was over.
- 1990 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein threatened to incinerate half of Israel with chemical weapons if Israel joined a conspiracy against Iraq.
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