- Beijing, China, the capital city of the planet’s most populous nation, gets its first drive-through McDonald’s restaurant, 2007
- Production begins on Toy Story, the first full-length feature film created by the pioneering Pixar Animation Studios, 1993
- The University of Notre Dame men’s basketball team defeats UCLA 71-70, in South Bend, Indiana, snapping UCLA’s record-setting 88-game winning streak, 1974
- Following the death of Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indira Gandhi becomes head of the Congress Party and thus prime minister of India, 1966
- Poet, author and literary critic Edgar Allan Poe is born in Boston, Massachusetts, 1809
- Confederate General Robert Edward Lee is born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, 1807
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