Patrick Henry 1736 - Prominent figure in the American Revolution, known for his "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" speech, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States
- 1765 - Patrick Henry denounced the Stamp Act before Virginia's House of Burgesses.
- 1849 - A patent for lifting vessels was granted to Abraham Lincoln.
- 1912 - Fifteen women were dismissed from their jobs at the Curtis Publishing Company in Philadelphia, PA, for dancing the Turkey Trot while on the job.
- 1990 - Boris Yeltsin was elected president of the Russian republic by the Russian parliament.
- 2015 - The Obama administration removed Cuba from the U.S. terrorism blacklist. The two countries had severed diplomatic relations in January of 1961.
- 2018 - Starbucks closed thousands of stores for part of the day for a training session on unconscious bias.
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