Francois Mitterand 1916 - President of France (1981-1995)
- 1825 - The Erie Canal opened in upstate New York. The 363-mile canal connected Lake Erie and the Hudson River at a cost of $7,602,000.
- 1881 - The "Gunfight at the OK Corral" took place in Tombstone, AZ.
- 1958 - Pan American Airways flew its first Boeing 707 jetliner from New York City to Paris.
- 1991 - Former Washington Mayor Marion Barry arrived at a federal correctional institution in Petersburg, VA, to begin serving a six-month sentence for cocaine possession.
- 1998 - A French lab found a nerve agent on an Iraqi missile warhead.
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