Joseph Conrad 1857- Author
- 1931 - Alka Seltzer was sold for the first time.
- 1950 - Paul Harvey began his national radio broadcast.
- 1967 - In Cape Town, South Africa, a team of surgeons headed by Dr. Christian Barnard, performed the first human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky. Washkansky only lived 18 days.
- 1992 - The UN Security Council unanimously approved a U.S.-led military mission to help starving Somalians.
- 1997 - In Ottawa, Canada, more than 120 countries were represented to sign a treaty prohibiting the use and production of anti-personnel land mines. The United States, China and Russia did not sign the treaty.
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