Boris Yeltsin 1931 - Russian president 1991-1999
- 1793 - France declared war on Britain and Holland.
- 1884 - The first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary was published.
- 1900 - Eastman Kodak Co. introduced the $1 Brownie box camera.
- 1919 - The first Miss America was crowned in New York City.
- 1994 - Jeff Gillooly pled guilty in Portland, OR, for his role in the attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan. Gillooly, Tonya Harding's ex-husband, struck a plea bargain under which he confessed to racketeering charges in exchange for testimony implicating Harding.
- 2003 - NASA's space shuttle Columbia exploded while re-entering the Earth's atmosphere. All seven astronauts on board were killed.
