Charles Henry Dow 1851 - Journalist, economist
- 1860 - Abraham Lincoln was elected to be the sixteenth president of the United States.
- 1861 - Jefferson Davis was elected as the president of the Confederacy in the U.S.
- 1869 - The first official intercollegiate football game was played in New Brunswick, NJ.
- 1894 - William C. Hooker received a patent for the mousetrap.
- 1923 - Jacob Schick was granted a patent for the electric shaver.
- 1999 - Australian voters rejected a referendum to drop Britain's queen as their head of state.
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