1782 – The first American commercial bank, the Bank of North America, opens.
1797 – The modern Italian flag is first used.
1800 – Millard Fillmore, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 13th President of the United States (d. 1874) is born.
1894 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
1913 – Johnny Mize, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 1993) is born.
1927 – The first transatlantic telephone service is established from New York, New York to London, United Kingdom.
1935 – Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.
1948 – Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
1954 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
1957 – Katie Couric, American television journalist, television personality, and author is born.
1959 – The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
1964 – Nicolas Cage, American actor, director, and producer is born.
1968 – Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
1980 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
1985 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
1989 – Hirohito, Japanese emperor (b. 1901) dies.
1990 – Bronko Nagurski, Canadian-American football player and wrestler (b. 1908) dies.
1999 – The Senate trial in the impeachment of U.S. President Bill Clinton begins.
2015 – Two gunmen commit a mass shooting at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, killing twelve people and injuring another eleven.
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