1789 – The University of North Carolina is chartered by the North Carolina General Assembly.
1815 – The U.S. Senate creates a select committee on finance and a uniform national currency, predecessor of the United States Senate Committee on Finance.
1816 – Indiana becomes the 19th U.S. state.
1880 – Oliver Winchester, American businessman, founded the Winchester Repeating Arms Company (b. 1810) dies.
1889 – Walter Knott, American farmer and businessman, founded Knott's Berry Farm (d. 1981) is born.
1923 – Lilian Cahn, Hungarian-born American businesswoman, co-founded Coach, Inc. (d. 2013) is born.
1934 – Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, takes his last drink and enters treatment for the last time.
1968 – The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, featuring the Rolling Stones, Jethro Tull, the Who, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull, and the Dirty Mac with Yoko Ono, is filmed in Wembley, London.
1971 – Maurice McDonald, American businessman, co-founded McDonald's (b. 1902) dies.
1972 – Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and last Apollo mission to land on the Moon.
1978 – The Lufthansa heist is committed by a group led by Lucchese family associate Jimmy Burke. It was the largest cash robbery ever committed on American soil, at that time.
1996 – Hailee Steinfeld, American actress is born.
2008 – Bettie Page, American model (b. 1923) dies.
2008 – Bernard Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.
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