83 BC – Mark Antony, Roman general and politician (d. 30 BCE) is born.
1784 – American Revolutionary War: Ratification Day, United States - Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris with Great Britain.
1858 – Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt.
1907 – An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000.
1915 – Mark Goodson, American game show producer; created Family Feud and The Price Is Right (d. 1992) is born.
1919 – Andy Rooney, American soldier and journalist (d. 2011) is born
1920 – John Francis Dodge, American businessman, co-founded the Dodge Automobile Company (b. 1864) dies.
1943 – World War II: Japan begins Operation Ke, the successful operation to evacuate its forces from Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
1943 – World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel by airplane while in office when he travels from Miami to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill.
1952 – NBC's long-running morning news program Today debuts, with host Dave Garroway.
1957 – Humphrey Bogart, American actor and singer (b. 1899) dies.
1960 – The Reserve Bank of Australia, the country's central bank and banknote issuing authority, is established.
1967 – Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In, takes place in San Francisco, California's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love.
1968 – LL Cool J, American rapper and actor is born.
1969 – An accidental explosion aboard the USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 27 people.
1969 – Dave Grohl, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and drummer (Foo Fighters & Nirvana) is born.
1973 – Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.
1975 – Teenage heiress Lesley Whittle is kidnapped by Donald Neilson, aka "the Black Panther".
1999 – Toronto Mayor Mel Lastman becomes the first mayor in Canada to call in the Army to help with emergency medical evacuations and snow removal after more than one meter of snow paralyzes the city.
2000 – A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years for the 1993 killing of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village.
2004 – The national flag of the Republic of Georgia, the so-called "five cross flag", is restored to official use after a hiatus of some 500 years.
2006 – Shelley Winters, American actress and singer (b. 1920) dies.
2009 – Ricardo Montalbán, Mexican-American actor and singer (b. 1920) dies.
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