1793: Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas, is born.
1807: The US Congress passes an act to prohibit the importation of slaves.1861: Tsar Alexander II emancipates the Russian serfs.
1867: The US Congress passes the 1st Reconstruction Act.
1877: The US Congress declares Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the 1876 election even though Samuel J. Tilden won the popular vote.
1896: Ethiopia defeats Italy in the Battle of Adwa, marking the first victory of an African nation over a colonial power.
1899: Mount Rainer National Park is established in Washington state.
1902: Moe Berg, baseball player and Allied spy is born. He's the guy who discovered, while on a mission in Germany, that the Nazis were nowhere close to getting the atomic bomb.
1904: Dr. Seuss is born.
1917: The passage of the Jones-Shafroth Act grants Puerto Ricans US citizenship.1917: Desi Arnaz is born.
1931: Mikhail Gorbechev is born.
1931: Tom Wolfe is born.
1942: John Irving is born.
1942: Lou Reed is born.
1946: Ho Chi Minh is elected President of North Vietnam.
1949: Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours, 1 minute.
1949: Gates McFadden is born. She played the ravishing red-headed Doctor Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
1949: Singer Eddie Money is born.1950: Karen Carpenter is born.
1952: Laraine Newman is born.
1962: Jon Bon Jovi is born.
1968: Daniel Craig is born. He played James Bond in the recent reboot of the series.
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