| Millard Fillmore, 13th President (1850-1853) | |
| Butterfly McQueen, actress (Gone with the Wind) | |
| Valeri N. Kubasov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 6, 36, Apollo-Soyuz) | |
| Vasili Alexeyev, world champion weight-lifter | |
| Calais, last English possession in France, retaken by French | |
| Galileo discovers 1st 3 moons of Jupiter, Io, Europa & Ganymede | |
| The typewriter is patented (it was built years later) | |
| 1st balloon flight across the English Channel. | |
| Liberia colonized by Americans | |
| 'Tarzan', one of the first adventure comic strips appears. | |
| First Class postage raised from 4 cents to 5 cents. | |
| First Class postage raised from 5 cents to 6 cents. | |
By Scott Labrecque version 9.4.0.0