Michael Faraday 1791
- 1862 - U.S. President Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. It stated that all slaves held within rebel states would be free as of January 1, 1863.
- 1955 - Commercial television began in Great Britain. The rules said that only six minutes of ads were allowed each hour and there was no Sunday morning TV permitted.
- 1980 - A border conflict between Iran and Iraq developed into a full-scale war.
- 1988 - Canada's government apologized for the internment of Japanese-Canadian's during World War II. They also promised compensation.
- 1994 - The U.S. President Clinton upgraded its military control in Haiti.
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