Mike Ditka 1939 - Football player and coach
- 1767 - The Mason-Dixon line was agreed upon. It was the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania.
- 1867 - The U.S. took formal possession of Alaska from Russia. The land was purchased of a total of $7 million dollars (2 cents per acre).
- 1898 - The American flag was raised in Puerto Rico only one year after the Caribbean nation won its independence from Spain.
- 1961 - Henri Matiss' "Le Bateau" went on display at New York's Museum of Modern Art. It was discovered 46 days later that the painting had been hanging upside down.
- 1970 - Quebec's minister of labor was found strangled to death after eight days of being held captive by the Quebec Liberation Front (FLQ).
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