1614 – Pocahontas, daughter of the chief of the Powhatan Indian confederacy, married English tobacco planter John Rolfe in Jamestown, VA.
1792 – President George Washington exercised the first veto of a Congressional bill. The bill would have divided seats in the House of Representatives and increased the number of seats for northern states.
1856 – Author – educator – political leader Booker T. Washington was born in Franklin County, VA.
1869 – Daniel Bakeman, the last surviving soldier of the Revolutionary War, died at the age of 109.
1900 – Actor Spencer Tracy (Boys Town, Captains Courageous, The Old Man and the Sea, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner) was born in Milwaukee, WI.
1908 – Actress Bette Davis (Dangerous, Jezebel, All About Eve, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?) was born in Lowell, MA.
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1920 – Author Arthur Hailey (Airport, Hotel, Wheels, The Moneychangers) was born in Bedfordshire, England.
1923 – Firestone Tire and Rubber Company of Akron, OH began the first regular production of balloon tires.
1933 – Dr. Evarts Graham performed the first operation to remove a lung on Dr. James Lee Gilmore, a 49-year-old obstetrician from Pittsburgh, PA, at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, MO.
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