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Holidays

Feast day of St. Zita, St. Machalus, St. Floribert of LiÈge, St. Asicus, St. Anthimus of Nicomedia, and Saints Castor and Stephen.

Sierra Leone: Independence Day.

South Africa: Freedom Day.

Yugoslavia: National Day (formation of Yugoslav federation in 1992, consisting of Serbia and Montenegro).

Slovenia: Insurrection Day.

Togo: Independence Day (1960, from France).

Events

1773 – The British Parliament passed the Tea Act, a bill designed to save the East India Company and grant it a monopoly on the American tea trade.

1805 – After marching 500 miles from Egypt, a small force of U.S. Marines and Berber mercenaries entered Derna, Tripoli, captured it and deposed Yusuf Karamanli, the ruling pasha.

1861 – West Virginia seceded from Virginia after Virginia seceded from the Union.

1865 – Just after the Civil War ended, the Sultana, a steam-powered riverboat, exploded and burned, killing more than 1400 passengers — mostly former Union POWs.

1880 – Francis Clarke and M.G. Foster patented the electrical hearing aid.

1961 – Sierra Leone became an independent republic within the British Commonwealth.

1981 – Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.

1992 – Russia and 12 other former Soviet republics won entry into the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

2005 – The Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France.

2006 – Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City.

Births

1759 – Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, English feminist author.

1791 – Samuel F.B. Morse, American, telegraph inventor.

1822 – Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States of America (1869-1877).

1896 – Rogers Hornsby, American baseball great.

1896 – Wallace Hume Carothers, American chemist who developed nylon.

1900 – Walter Lantz, American cartoonist, creator of Woody Woodpecker.

1932 – Casey Kasem (born Kemal Amin Kasem), American disc jockey.

1939 – Judy Carne (born Joyce Botterill), British actress and comedian.

1984 – Patrick Stump (born Patrick Martin Stumph), American musician.

Deaths

1882 – Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and poet.

1965 – Edward R. Murrow (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow), American journalist.

1988 – David Scarboro, British actor.

1998 – Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-born writer.

2002 – Ruth Handler, American, creator of the Barbie doll and Mattel company co-founder.

Source: Reference.com