Edgar Rice Burroughs 1875 - Writer (Tarzan of the Apes)
- 1887 - Emile Berliner filed for a patent for his invention of the lateral-cut, flat-disk gramophone. It is a device that is better known as a record player. Thomas Edison made the idea work.
- 1922 - The first daily news program on radio was "The Radio Digest," on WBAY radio in New York City, NY.
- 1939 - World War II began when Germany invaded Poland.
- 1942 - A federal judge in Sacramento, CA, upheld the wartime detention of Japanese-Americans as well as Japanese nationals.
- 1969 - Col. Moammar Gadhafi came into power in Libya after the government was overthrown.
- 1972 - America’s Bobby Fischer beat Russia’s Boris Spassky to become world chess champion. The chess match took place in Reykjavik, Iceland.
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