Ambrose Bierce 1842 - Journalist, editorialist
- 1675 - King Philip's War began when Indians massacre colonists at Swansee, Plymouth colony.
- 1862 - U.S. intervention saved the British and French at the Dagu forts in China.
- 1910 - The Japanese army invaded Korea.
- 1941 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt pledged all possible support to the Soviet Union.
- 1948 - The Soviet Union began the Berlin Blockade.
- 1982 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that no president could be sued for damages connected with actions taken while serving as President of the United States.
- 2002 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that juries, not judges, must make the decision to give a convicted killer the death penalty.
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