Katherine Graham 1917
- 0455 - Rome was sacked by the Vandal army.
- 1858 - In a speech in Springfield, IL, U.S. Senate candidate Abraham Lincoln said the slavery issue had to be resolved. He declared, "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
- 1884 - At Coney Island, in Brooklyn, NY, the first roller coaster in America opened.
- 1903 - Ford Motor Company was incorporated.
- 1925 - France accepted a German proposal for a security pact.
- 1932 - The ban on Nazi storm troopers was lifted by the von Papen government in Germany.
- 1940 - Marshal Henri-Philippe Petain became the prime minister of the Vichy government of occupied France.
- 1952 - "Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl" was published in the United States.
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