George Santayana 1863 - Philosopher, essayist, poet, novelist
- 1773 - Nearly 350 chests of tea were dumped into Boston Harbor off of British ships by Colonial patriots. The act was to protest taxation without representation...
- 1835 - In New York, 530 buildings were destroyed by fire.
- 1950 - U.S. President Truman proclaimed a national state of emergency in order to fight "Communist imperialism."
- 1996 - Britain's agriculture minister announced the slaughter of an additional 100,000 cows thought to be at risk of contracting BSE in an effort to persuade the EU to lift its ban on Britain.
- 1998 - Eric Michelman filed the earliest patent for a scroll wheel for a computer mouse.
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