Emile Zola 1840 - Novelist
- 1889 - Charles Hall patented aluminum.
- 1932 - A $50,000 ransom was paid for the infant son of Charles and Anna Lindbergh. He child was not returned and was found dead the next month.
- 1935 - Sir Watson-Watt was granted a patent for RADAR.
- 1963 - Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King began the first non-violent campaign in Birmingham, AL.
- 1982 - Argentina invaded the British-owned Falkland Islands. The following June Britain took the islands back.
- 1990 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein threatened to incinerate half of Israel with chemical weapons if Israel joined a conspiracy against Iraq.
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