1822 – Étienne Lenoir, Belgian engineer, designed the internal combustion engine (d. 1900) is born.
1899 – Hiram Walker, American businessman, founded Canadian Club (b. 1816) dies.
1908 – A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.
1915 – The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote.
1921 – Acting to restore confidence in baseball after the Black Sox Scandal, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected as Major League Baseball's first commissioner.
1923 – Ira Hayes, American marine who raised the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima (d. 1955) is born.
1926 – Original Sam 'n' Henry aired on Chicago radio later renamed Amos 'n' Andy in 1928.
1930 – Tim Horton, Canadian ice hockey player and businessman, founded Tim Hortons (d. 1974) is born.
1932 – Hattie Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
1942 – World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board.
1951 – Rush Limbaugh, American talk show host and author is born.
1964 – Jeff Bezos, American computer scientist and businessman, founded Amazon.com is born.
1967 – Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
1969 – The New York Jets of the American Football League defeat the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League to win Super Bowl III in what is considered to be one of the greatest upsets in sports history.
1971 – The Harrisburg Seven: Rev. Philip Berrigan and five other activists are indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and of plotting to blow up the heating tunnels of federal buildings in Washington, D.C.
1998 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
2001 – Downtown Disney opens to the public as part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.
2001 – William Redington Hewlett, American engineer and businessman, co-founded Hewlett-Packard (b. 1913) dies.
2010 – An earthquake in Haiti occurs, killing over 100,000 people and destroying much of the capital Port-au-Prince.
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