- 1777: The citizens of New Connecticut - later to become the state of Vermont - declared their independence from Great Britain.
- 1870: The Democratic Party was represented as a donkey in a cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly.
- 1973: President Richard Nixon announced the suspension of all U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam, citing progress in peace negotiations.
- 2004: The NASA Spirit rover rolled onto the surface of Mars for the first time.
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