Frederick Douglas 1817
- 1882 - The last bareknuckle fight for the heavyweight boxing championship took place in Mississippi City.
- 1922 - DeWitt and Lila Acheson Wallace offered 5,000 copies of "Reader's Digest" magazine for the first time.
- 1943 - The U.S. government announced that shoe rationing would go into effect in two days.
- 1985 - "New York, New York" became the official anthem of New York City.
- 1986 - Haitian President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier fled his country ending 28 years of family rule.
- 1991 - The Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide was sworn in as Haiti's first democratically elected president.
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