| John Pierpoint (JP) Morgan, financed the US. | |
| Nikita S Khrushchev, Soviet leader (1953-64) | |
| Thornton Wilder, American novelist, playwright (Our Town). | |
| Mikhail Botvinnik of USSR, world chess champion (1948-63) | |
| Sirimavo Bandaranaike, world's first woman PM (Sri Lanka) | |
| Christopher Columbus contracts with Spain to find the Indies. | |
| New York Harbor discovered by Giovanni Verrazano. | |
| Treaty of Shimonoseki, ends first Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895). | |
| Office of Price Administration established (handled rationing) | |
| France grants Syria independence (Natl Day) | |
| Bay of Pigs, how not to run an invasion. | |
By Scott Labrecque version 9.4.0.0