Golda Meir (Golda Mabovitch, Golda Meyerson) 1898 - Fourth Prime Minister of the State of Israel
- 1802 - Washington, DC, was incorporated as a city.
- 1921 - West Virginia imposed the first state sales tax.
- 1979 - Margaret Thatcher was choses to become Britain's first female prime minister.
- 1987 - The Miami Herald reported that Donna Rice had been spending "Friday night and most of Saturday" at Democratic presidential candidate Gary Hart's Washington townhouse. The resulting controversy ended Hart's presidential bid.
- 1992 - Five days of rioting and looting ended in Los Angeles, CA. The riots, that killed 53 people, began after the acquittal of police officers in the beating of Rodney King.
- 2016 - Donald Trump, then a political outsider, essentially clinched the Republican presidential nomination with a victory in Indiana.
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