Dolley Payne Madison 1768 - U.S. First Lady, wife of 4th President James Madison
- 1774 - Britain's Parliament passed the Coercive Acts to punish the American colonists for their increasingly anti-British behavior
- 1830 - The fountain pen was patented by H.D. Hyde.
- 1873 - Levi Strauss began marketing blue jeans with copper rivets.
- 1939 - The first regular air-passenger service across the Atlantic Ocean began with the take-off of the "Yankee Clipper" from Port Washington, New York.
- 2013 - In New York, NY, One World Trade Center reached its full height when the spirt was installed atop the building. The height of 1776 feet put the building at the tallest in the Western Hemisphere.
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