1674 – England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster, ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War. A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England, and it is renamed New York.
1807 – Former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested for treason in Wakefield, Alabama and confined to Fort Stoddert.

1859 – Daniel E. Sickles, a New York Congressman, is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity. This is the first time this defense is successfully used in the United States.
1878 – Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
1884 – More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
1942 – World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese Americans to internment camps.
1953 – Censorship: Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States.
1959 – Roger Goodell, American businessman, NFL Commissioner is born.
1962 – Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek-American pathologist, invented the Pap smear (b. 1883) dies.
1963 – The publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique reawakens the feminist movement in the United States as women's organizations and consciousness raising groups spread.
1985 – William J. Schroeder becomes the first recipient of an artificial heart to leave hospital.
1985 – EastEnders, BBC's flagship soap opera, broadcasts for the first time.
2004 – Millie Bobby Brown, English actress and model
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