Elizabeth "Betty" Ford (Bloomer) 1918 - Wife of 38th U.S. President Gerald R. Ford, founder of the Betty Ford Clinic
- 1513 - Explorer Juan Ponce de Leon claimed Florida for Spain.
- 1864 - The U.S. Senate passed the 13th Amendment (S.J. Res. 16) by a vote of 38 to 6.
- 1873 - Alfred Paraf patented the first successful oleomargarine.
- 1913 - The Seventeenth amendment was ratified, requiring direct election of senators.
- 1952 - U.S. President Truman seized steel mills to prevent a nationwide strike.
- 1962 - Bay of Pigs invaders got thirty years imprisonment in Cuba.
- 1986 - Clint Eastwood was elected mayor of Carmel, CA.
- 1988 - Former U.S. President Reagan aid Lyn Nofzinger was sentenced to prison for illegal lobbying for Wedtech Corp.
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