1653 ~ Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette began exploring the Mississippi River.

1749 ~ Birthday of Edward Jenner, inventor of vaccine.

1846 ~ The Saxophone was patented by Adolphe Sax.

1866 ~ Birthday of Erik Satie, Composer.

1900 ~ During the Boer War, British troops relieved Mafeking.

1900 ~ Birthday of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

1943 ~ The US Army contracted with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the ENIAC.

1954 ~ The United States Supreme Court handed down a unanimous decision in “Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas”.

1966 ~ Birthday of Qusay Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein.

1995 ~ Jacques Chirac assumed the presidency of France.

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