| Wolfgang A Mozart, musical prodigy (Eine Kleine Nachtmusik) | |
| Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (you know him as Lewis Carroll) | |
| Dmitri Mendeleev, discoverer of periodic table (or 1919) | |
| Samuel Gompers, 1st president of American Federation of Laborers | |
| Jerome Kern, Broadway composer | |
| Thomas Edison granted patent for an electric incandescent lamp | |
| National Geographic Society founded in Washington, DC | |
| 1st public demonstration of television. | |
| 1st Tape Recorder is sold. | |
| Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts Grissom, White & Chaffee | |
| US & Vietnam sign cease-fire, ending the longest US war | |
By Scott Labrecque version 9.4.0.0