John D. Rockefeller 1839
- 1099 - Christian soldiers on the First Crusade march around Jerusalem.
- 1608 - The first French settlement at Quebec was established by Samuel de Champlain.
- 1776 - Col. John Nixon gave the first public reading of the U.S. Declaration of Independence to a crowd at Independence Square in Philadelphia.
- 1865 - C.E. Barnes patented the machine gun.
- 1889 - John L. Sullivan defeated Jake Kilrain, in the last championship bare-knuckle fight. The fight lasted 75 rounds.
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