Kate Smith 1909 - Singer
- 1707 - England, Wales and Scotland were united to form Great Britain.
- 1927 - Adolf Hitler held his first Nazi meeting in Berlin.
- 1937 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed an act of neutrality, keeping the United States out of World War II.
- 1952 - Production of Mr. Potato Head began.
- 1961 - Fidel Castro announced there would be no more elections in Cuba.
- 1992 - On the third day of the Los Angeles riots resulting from the Rodney King beating trial. King appeared in public to appeal for calm, he asked, "Can we all get along?"
