
| Samuel F. B. Morse, dit-dah-dit | |
| Herbert Spencer, English Victorian philosopher | |
| Ulyssses S. Grant, 18th President (1869-1877) | |
| Wallace Hume Carothers, invented nylon. | |
| Walter Lantz, Woody Woodpecker's creator | |
| Coretta Scott King, civil rights activist | |
| Union Day, celebrated in Tanzania. | |
| First Spanish settlement in Phillipines, Cebu City. | |
| Grant's Tomb (famed of song and legend) is dedicated. | |
| US Social Security system makes its first benefit payment. | |
| Founding of the Second Republic, in Austria. | |
| First radar installation aboard a commercial ship installed. | |
| First atomic-electric drive submarine launched (Tullibee). | |
| Captain Midnight (John R MacDougall) interrupts HBO. | |
| BC - Johannes Kepler's date for creation of universe. | |
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