1793 – Marie Antoinette, Austrian wife of Louis XVI of France is executed.
1831 – Lucy Stanton, American abolitionist, is born.
1846 – William T. G. Morton first demonstrates ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome.
1854 – Oscar Wilde, Irish author, poet, and playwright is born.
1869 – The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is “discovered”.
1884 – Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor is born.
1888 – American playwright and Nobel Prize laureate Eugene O’Neill is born.
1916 – Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States in Brooklyn, New York.
1923 – Roy & Walt Disney found the Walt Disney Company.
1940 – The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
1946 – Nuremberg Trials: Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders of the Main Trial.
1947 – American singer-songwriter and guitarist Bob Weir is born.
1958 – Tim Robbins is born.
1962 – Flea is born.
1977 – John Mayer is born.
