1724 - The premiere of Giulio Cesare, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel, takes place in London
1792 - The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by President George Washington
1835 - Concepción, Chile is destroyed by an earthquake
1872 - In New York City the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens
1929 - birth of Amanda Blake, American actress
1942 - Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America's first World War II flying ace
1947 - State of Prussia ceases to exist
1947 - birth of Peter Strauss, American actor
1963 - birth of Charles Barkley, American basketball player
1966 - birth of Cindy Crawford, American model
1967 - birth of Kurt Cobain, American musician
1987 - Unabomber: In Salt Lake City, in the USA, a bomb explodes in a computer store
1998 - American figure skater Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest gold-medalist at the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan
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