Charles Barkley 1963 - Basketball player
- 1792 - U.S. President George Washington signed the Postal Service Act that created the U.S. Post Office.
- 1809 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the power of the federal government was greater than that of any individual state.
- 1872 - Luther Crowell received a patent for a machine that manufactured paper bags.
- 1962 - John Glenn made space history when he orbited the world three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes. He was the first American to orbit the Earth. He was aboard the Friendship 7 Mercury capsule. Glenn witnessed the Devil's Cigarette Lighter while in flight.
- 1965 - Ranger 8 crashed on the moon after sending back thousands of pictures of its surface.
- 1998 - American Tara Lipinski, at age 15, became the youngest gold medalist in winter Olympics history when she won the ladies' figure skating title at Nagano, Japan.
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