1788 – Connecticut becomes the fifth state to be admitted to the United States.
1806 – Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral.
1857 – The Fort Tejon earthquake strikes California, registering an estimated magnitude of 7.9.
1858 – Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide.
1861 – Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union before the outbreak of the American Civil War.
1880 – The Great Gale of 1880 devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with high winds and heavy snow.
1894 – New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
1913 – Richard Nixon, American commander, lawyer, and politician; 37th President of the United States (d. 1994) is born.
1934 – Bart Starr, American football player and coach, Green Bay Packers, is born.
1939 – Johann Strauss III, Austrian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1866) dies.
1947 – Elizabeth "Betty" Short, the Black Dahlia, is last seen alive.
1980 – Sergio García, Spanish golfer is born.
2007 – Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveils the first iPhone.
2013 – A SeaStreak ferry traveling to lower Manhattan, New York City, crashes into the dock, injuring 85 people.
2015 – Samuel Goldwyn, Jr., American film producer (b. 1926) dies.
2015 – The perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris two days earlier are both killed after a hostage situation. Elsewhere, a second hostage situation, related to the Charlie Hebdo shooting, occurs at a Jewish market, Hypercacher, in the eastern Paris suburb of Vincennes.
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