| John Fitch, had a working steamboat years before Fulton. | |
| John C Fremont, mapmaker & explorer of Western US | |
| Horace Wells, dentist, pioneer in use of medical anethesia. | |
| Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson, Confederate general | |
| Roger Nash Baldwin, founder of American Civil Liberties Union | |
| Wolfgang K”hler, Gestalt psychologist (The Mentality of Apes) | |
| Placido Domingo, operatic tenor | |
| National Hugging Day | |
| The pineapple is introduced to Hawaii. | |
| The Nautilus launched, first nuclear submarine. | |
| Snow falls in San Francisco, believe it or not. | |
| Neptune becomes the outermost planet (Pluto moves closer). | |
By Scott Labrecque version 9.4.0.0