Guy DeMaupassant 1850
- 1861 - The U.S. federal government levied its first income tax. The tax was 3% of all incomes over $800. The wartime measure was rescinded in 1872.
- 1914 - The first electric traffic signal lights were installed in Cleveland, Ohio.
- 1921 - The first play-by-play broadcast of a baseball game was done by Harold Arlin. KDKA Radio in Pittsburgh, PA described the action between the Pirates and Philadelphia.
- 1944 - Polish insurgents liberated a German labor camp in Warsaw. 348 Jewish prisoners were freed.
- 1966 - In New York, groundbreaking for the construction of the original World Trade Center began.
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