- 146 BC – The Punic Wars between Rome and Carthage come to an end after more than 100 years of fighting.
- 1884 – Willis Johnson, a Black inventor, patented the egg beater.
- 1917 – Immigration Act passed after President Wilson had vetoed it the week previously. The law required a literacy test for immigrants and barred Asiatic laborers, except for those from countries with special treaties or agreements with the United States, such as the Philippines.
- 1919 – Mary Pickford joins Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith to form United Artists (UA).
- 1934 – Hank Aaron is born.
- 1941 – Hitler scolds Mussolini, tells him to fight harder.
- 1950 – Natalie Cole is born.
- 1958 – Clifton R. Wharton is confirmed as minister to Rumania, the first Black diplomat to head a U.S. Embassy in Europe.
- 1990 – Barack Obama becomes the first Black student named as president of the Harvard Law Review.
- 1994 – White supremacist Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of killing Medgar Evers, more than 30 years after the crime.
- 2012 – Josh Powell kills himself and his two sons by blowing up their house.
