Eric Hoffer 1902
- 1805 - Aaron Burr visited New Orleans with plans to establish a new country, with New Orleans as the capital city.
- 1866 - Ulysses S. Grant was named General of the Army. He was the first American officer to hold the rank.
- 1907 - Korea became a protectorate of Japan.
- 1909 - French aviator Louis Bleriot flew across the English Channel in a monoplane. He traveled from Calais to Dover in 37 minutes. He was the first man to fly across the channel.
- 1952 - Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the U.S.
- 1978 - Louise Joy Brown, the first test-tube baby, was born in Oldham, England. She had been conceived through in-vitro fertilization.
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