Chuck Barris 1929 - Producer, creator and game show host ("The Gong Show")
- 1784 - The U.S. Congress formally created the United States Army to replace the disbanded Continental Army.
- 1805 - A peace treaty between the U.S. and Tripoli was completed in the captain's cabin on board the USS Constitution.
- 1888 - "Casey at the Bat" the poem by Ernest Lawrence Thayer was first published.
- 1938 - The German Reich voted to confiscate so-called "degenerate art."
- 1989 - Chinese army troops positioned themselves to begin a sweep of Beijing to crush student-led pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square.
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