- 1710 – The Statute of Anne, the first fully-fledged law regulating copyright, entered into force in Great Britain.
- 1816 – President James Madison signed the charter establishing the Second Bank of the United States (pictured) as the nation's second national bank.
- 1925 – The novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald was first published.
- 1970 – In the midst of business disagreements with his bandmates, Paul McCartney announced his departure from The Beatles.
- 2010 – A Tupolev Tu-154M aircraft carrying President of Poland Lech Kaczyński and other Polish officials crashed while attempting to land in heavy fog at Smolensk-North air base near Smolensk, Russia, killing all 96 on board.
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