404: The last known gladiator competition in Rome takes place.
1651: Charles II is crowned king of Scotland.
1660: Samuel Pepys starts his diary.
1673: Regular mail delivery begins between New York and Boston.
1735: Paul Revere is born.
1801: Great Britain and Ireland unify.
1801: Giuseppi Piazzi discovers the dwarf planet Ceres.
1808: The importation of slaves into the United States is banned.
1818: Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus is published.
1863: The Emancipation Proclamation takes effect in Confederate territory.
1864: George Washington Carver is born.
1877: Queen Victoria is proclaimed Empress of India.
1895: J. Edgar Hoover is born.
1909: Barry Goldwater is born. He didn't really write The Conscience of a Conservative - L. Brent Bozell did.
1919: J.D. Salinger is born.
1925: Edwin Hubble announces the discovery of galaxies outside the Milky Way.
1934: Alcatraz Island becomes a US federal prison.
1939: William Hewlett and David Packard found Hewlett-Packard.
1942: Country Joe McDonald of Country Joe and the Fish is born.
1943: Don Novello is born. He played Father Guido Sarducci.
1959: Batista is overthrown by the forces of Fidel Castro.
1970: Unix time begins.
1971: Cigarette ads are banned on American television.
2001: Ray Walston dies.
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