Abraham Lincoln (U.S.) 1809 - Sixteenth President of the United States
- 1878 - Frederick W. Thayer patented the baseball catcher’s mask.
- 1892 - In the U.S., President Lincoln's birthday was declared to be a national holiday.
- 1909 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded.
- 1940 - Mutual Radio presented the first broadcast of the radio play "The Adventures of Superman."
- 1973 - The State of Ohio went metric, becoming the first in the U.S. to post metric distance signs.
- 1993 - In Liverpool, England, a 2-year-old boy, James Bulger, was lured away from his mother at a shopping mall and beaten to death. Two ten-year-old boys were responsible.
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