1804 – John Deere, American blacksmith and businessman, founded Deere & Company (d. 1886) is born.
1812 – The strongest in a series of earthquakes strikes New Madrid, Missouri.
1871 – Henry E. Steinway, German-American businessman, founded Steinway & Sons (b. 1797) dies.
1873 – Thomas Andrews, Irish shipbuilder and businessman, designed the RMS Titanic (d. 1912) is born.
1894 – The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado.
1904 – A fire in Baltimore, Maryland destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
1907 – The Mud March is the first large procession organized by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
1935 – The classic board game Monopoly is invented.
1938 – Harvey Samuel Firestone, American businessman, founded the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company (b. 1868) dies.
1940 – The second full-length animated Walt Disney film, Pinocchio, premieres.
1962 – The United States bans all Cuban imports and exports.
1979 – Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was discovered.
1984 – Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B Mission: Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU).
1986 – Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation.
1991 – Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in.
2013 – Mississippi officially certifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was formally ratified by Mississippi in 1995.
2015 – Dean Smith, American basketball player and coach (b. 1931)
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