1750 – The F.H.C. Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, is formed at Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia. It is the first college fraternity.
1839 – The Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
1885 – George S. Patton, American general (d. 1945) is born.
1889 – The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd state of the United States.
1921 – The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.
1926 – The United States Numbered Highway System is established.
1962 – Demi Moore, American actress, director, and producer is born.
1966 – NASA launches Gemini 12.
1974 – Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor and producer is born.
1984 – Martin Luther King, Sr., American pastor, missionary, and activist (b. 1899) dies.
2004 – Yasser Arafat, Palestinian engineer and politician, 1st President of the Palestinian National Authority, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1929) dies.
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