George F. Will 1941 - Columnist ("Newsweek"), editor
- 1626 - Dutch explorer Peter Minuit landed on Manhattan Island. Native Americans later sold the island (20,000 acres) for $24 in cloth and buttons.
- 1715 - A French manufacturer debuted the first folding umbrella.
- 1776 - Rhode Island declared its freedom from England two months before the Declaration of Independence was adopted.
- 1942 - The United States began food rationing.
- 1979 - Margaret Thatcher became Britain's first woman prime minister.
- 1981 - The Federal Reserve Board raised its discount rate to 14%.
- 1994 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat signed a historic accord on Palestinian autonomy that granted self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
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