Saul Bellow 1915
- 1898 - U.S. Marines landed in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
- 1903 - Binney & Smith Company began developing a product line of wax crayons. The product was named Crayola.
- 1909 - The SOS distress signal was used for the first time. The Cunard liner SS Slavonia used the signal when it wrecked off the Azores.
- 1920 - The Republican convention in Chicago endorsed woman suffrage.
- 1933 - Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were in a car accident on a rural road in north Texas. The third-degree burns suffered by Parker resulted in a pronounced limp for the rest of her life.
- 1935 - Alcoholics Anonymous was founded by William G. Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith.
- 1943 - Laszlo Biro patented his ballpoint pen. Biro was a Hungarian journalist.
- 1948 - Chuck Yeager exceeded the speed of sound in the Bell XS-1.
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