1839 – Congress prohibits dueling in District of Columbia
1864 – Civil War battle of Olustee, Florida
1909 – Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
1931 – Congress allows California to build Oakland-Bay Bridge
2001 – The United States Supreme Court declines to consider an appeal by five major oil companies against Unocal’s patent on production of cleaner “reformulated” gasoline sold in California
2013 – Kepler-37b, the smallest known exoplanet, is discovered
1632 – Thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds, English PM (1690-94)/founder (Tories)
1839 – Benjamin Waugh, American minister; founder of the NSPCC (d. 1908)
1903 – Pierre Charles, Belgian heavyweight boxer
1913 – Rex Tucker, TV writer/director
1978 – Lauren Ambrose, American actress
1983 – Justin Verlander, American baseball player
1194 – Tancredo of Lecce, King of Sicily, dies
1667 – David ben Samuel Halevi, rabbi/author (Shulchan Aruch), dies
1737 – Elizabeth Rowe, poet, dies
1803 – Marie Dumesnil, French actress (b. 1713)
1911 – Peter Nicolai von Wilm, composer, dies at 76
2003 – Ty Longley, American guitarist (Great White) (b. 1971)