1656 – The first Jewish doctor in the United States, Jacob Lumbrozo, arrives in Maryland.
1848 – Gold is discovered at Sutter's Creek, CA, signalling the beginning of the California gold rush.
1908 – The Boy Scouts movement begins in England.
1980 – Under President Jimmy Carter, the U.S. announces military equipment sales to China.
FAMOUS BIRTHS
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1862 – Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist Edith Wharton (Edith Newbold Jones) is born.
FAMOUS DEATHS
1955 – Ira Hamilton Hayes, a Pima Native American and World War II hero (b. 1923). He took part in raising the second American flag over Mt. Suribachi on Iwo Jima on February 23, 1945 for the iconic Pulitzer Prize winning photo taken by Joe Rosenthal. Hayes could not handle the unwanted fame and his life deteriorated after the war. Tony Curtis portrayed Hayes in the 1961 film, The Outsider, from the book by William Bradrord Huie.
1965 – British WWII Prime Minister, writer, historian and Nobel Prize winner Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill dies at 91.
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