Evel Knievel (Robert Craig) 1938
- 1777 - American troops defeated British forces in Saratoga, NY. It was the turning point in the American Revolutionary War.
- 1931 - Al Capone was convicted on income tax evasion and was sentenced to 11 years in prison. He was released in 1939.
- 1933 - Dr. Albert Einstein moved to Princeton, NJ, after leaving Germany.
- 1978 - U.S. President Carter signed a bill that restored full U.S. citizenship rights to Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
- 2001 - Israel's tourism minister was killed. A radical Palestinian faction claimed that it had carried out the assassination to avenge the killing of its leader by Israel 2 months earlier.
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