In 1473, the astronomer Copernicus was born in Torun, Poland.
In 1803, congress voted to accept Ohio's borders and constitution. However, Congress did not get around to formally ratifying Ohio statehood until 1953.
In 1807, former Vice President Aaron Burr was arrested in Alabama. He was subsequently tried for treason and acquitted.
In 1846, the Texas state government was formally installed in Austin.
In 1878, Thomas Edison received a patent for his phonograph.
In 1881, Kansas became the first state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages.
In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order making possible the wartime internment of Japanese-Americans.
In 1945, during World War II, U.S. Marines landed on the Japanese-held island of Iwo Jima in the Western Pacific.
In 1963, the Soviet Union informed President John F. Kennedy that it would withdraw "several thousand" of an estimated 17,000 Soviet troops in Cuba.
In 1983, 13 people were found shot to death at a gambling club in Seattle's Chinatown district in what became known as the "Wah Mee Massacre." Two Chinese immigrants were later convicted of the killings.
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Former jockey Eddie Arcaro (1916)
Singer Smokey Robinson (1940)
Britain's Prince Andrew (1960)
Actress Justine Bateman (1966)
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"Love is the child of freedom, never that of domination."
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Eric Fromm, German-American psychoanalyst (1900-1980)