Albert Einstein 1879
- 1794 - Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin.
- 1903 - The U.S. Senate ratified the Hay-Herran Treaty that guaranteed the U.S. the right to build a canal at Panama.
- 1914 - Henry Ford announced the new continuous motion method to assemble cars. The process decreased the time to make a car from 12― hours to 93 minutes.
- 1932 - George Eastman, the founder of the Kodak company, committed suicide.
- 1979 - The Census Bureau reported that 95% of all Americans were married or would get married.
- 1996 - U.S. President Bill Clinton committed $100 million for an anti-terrorism pact with Israel to track down and root out Islamic militants.
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