William Safire 1929 - Newspaper columnist
- 1777 - France recognized American independence.
- 1791 - A traffic regulation in New York City established the first street to go "One Way."
- 1903 - The first successful gasoline-powered airplane flight took place near Kitty Hawk, NC. Orville and Wilbur Wright made the flight.
- 1969 - Television history was made when Tiny Tim and Miss Vicki Budinger were married on "The Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson.
- 1973 - Thirty-one people were killed at Rome airport when Arab guerillas hijacked a German airliner.
- 1976 - WTCG-TV, Atlanta, GA, changed its call letters to WTBS, and was uplinked via satellite. The station became the first commercial TV station to cover the entire U.S.
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