Henry Clay 1777 - "The Great Pacificator", U.S. Secretary of State under John Quincy Adams, three time unsuccessful candidate for president of United States.
- 1861 - Fort Sumter was shelled by Confederacy, starting America's Civil War.
- 1877 - A catcher's mask was used in a baseball game for the first time by James Alexander Tyng.
- 1892 - Voters in Lockport, New York, became the first in the U.S. to use voting machines.
- 1945 - In New York, the organization of the first eye bank, the Eye Bank for Sight Restoration, was announced.
- 1961 - Soviet Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin became first man to orbit the Earth.
- 1992 - Disneyland Paris opened in Marne-La-Vallee, France.
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