Steven Jobs 1955 - Co-founder of Apple, Inc. - iTunes Music
- 1868 - The U.S. House of Representatives impeached President Andrew Johnson due to his attempt to dismiss Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. The U.S. Senate later acquitted Johnson.
- 1903 - In Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, an area was leased to the U.S. for a naval base.
- 1938 - The first nylon bristle toothbrush was made. It was the first time that nylon yarn had been used commercially.
- 1946 - Juan Peron was elected president of Argentina.
- 1989 - Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini sentenced Salman Rushdie to death for his novel "The Satanic Verses". A bounty of one to three-million-dollars was also put on Rushidie's head.
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