1802: Alexandre Dumas is born [works]
1895: Robert Graves is born [works]
1897: Amelia Earhart is born
1901: O. Henry is released from prison after serving three years of a five-year sentence
1937: Alabama drops charges against four of the “Scottsboro Boys”
1974: The United States Supreme Court orders President Nixon to surrender tape recordings of White House conversations about the Watergate affair
1980: Peter Sellers dies