Terry "Hulk Hogan" Bollea 1953
- 1896 - Harvey Hubbell received a patent for the electric light bulb socket with a pull-chain.
- 1909 - The American ship Arapahoe became the first to ever use the SOS distress signal off the coast of Cape Hatteras, NC.
- 1934 - Alcatraz, in San Francisco Bay, received federal prisoners for the first time.
- 1984 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan was preparing for his weekly radio broadcast when, during testing of the microphone, the President said of the Soviet Union, "My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you that I just signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."
- 1992 - In Bloomington, MN, the Mall of America opened. It was the largest shopping mall in the United States.
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