William Dean Howells 1837 - Author
- 1498 - Vasco de Gama landed at what is now Mozambique on his way to India.
- 1692 - In Salem Village, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Salem witch trials began. Four women were the first to be charged.
- 1932 - The 22-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was kidnapped. The child was found dead in May.
- 1954 - Five U.S. congressmen were wounded when four Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire from the gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives.
- 1989 - In Washington, DC, Mayor Barry and the City council imposed a curfew on minors.
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