1839 – The most damaging storm in 300 years sweeps across Ireland, damaging or destroying more than 20% of the houses in Dublin.
1853 – President-elect of the United States Franklin Pierce and his family are involved in a train wreck near Andover, Massachusetts. Pierce's 11-year-old son Benjamin is killed in the crash.
1878 – Carl Sandburg, American poet and historian (d. 1967) is born.
1893 – The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
1907 – Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome, Italy.
1912 – New Mexico is admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state.
1919 – Theodore Roosevelt, American colonel and politician, 26th President of the United States (b. 1858) dies.
1920 – Early Wynn, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 1999) is born.
1921 – Formation of the Iraqi Army.
1929 – Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta, India, to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people.
1930 – The first diesel-engined automobile trip is completed, from Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York, New York.
1931 – Thomas Edison signs his last patent application.
1931 – E. L. Doctorow, American author, playwright, and academic (d. 2015) is born.
1946 – The first general election ever in Vietnam is held.
1947 – Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to offer a round-the-world ticket.
1951 – Korean War: An estimated 200–1,300 South Korean communist sympathizers are slaughtered in what becomes the Ganghwa massacre.
1960 – National Airlines Flight 2511 is destroyed in mid-air by a bomb, while en route from New York City to Miami.
1974 – In response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
1993 – Dizzy Gillespie, American singer-songwriter and trumpet player (b. 1917) dies.
1993 – Rudolf Nureyev, Russian-French dancer and choreographer (b. 1938) dies.
1994 – Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the knee at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit.
2009 – Israel conducts an assault on the Gaza Strip
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