1788 – Connecticut becomes the fifth state to be admitted to the United States.
1793 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States.
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.
1870 – Joseph Strauss, American engineer, co-designed the Golden Gate Bridge (d. 1938) is born.
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.
1914 – Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc., the first historically black intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity to be officially recognized at Howard University, is founded.
1921 – John Sperling, American businessman, founded the University of Phoenix (d. 2014) is born.
1939 – Johann Strauss III, Austrian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1866) dies.
1944 – Jimmy Page, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer is born.
2005 – Mahmoud Abbas wins the election to replace Yasser Arafat as President of the Palestinian National Authority. He replaces interim president Rawhi Fattouh.
2007 – Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduces the original iPhone at a Macworld keynote in San Francisco.
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 Vincennes.
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