1900 - Japan's primary school law is amended to provide four years of mandatory schooling
1915 - Chicago White Sox acquire "Shoeless" Joe Jackson from Cleveland for Robert Roth, Larry Chappell, Ed Klepfer, and $31,500; Jackson becomes involved in the "Black Sox Scandal" in 1919
1958 - Chicago Cubs use first baseman Dale Long as their first major league lefty catcher since 1906
2011 - Senior Players Championship Men's Golf, Westchester CC: Fred Couples wins the first of two Champions Tour major titles with a birdie on the third playoff hole against John Cook
2023 - Guatemala's presidential election is won by anti-corruption candidate Bernardo Arévalo, who defeats former first lady Sandra Torres

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1811 - Gilman Marston, American Brigadier General (Union Army) and politician (R-NH), born in Orford, New Hampshire (d. 1890)
1832 - Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, American aeronaut and inventor, born in Jefferson Mills, Coos County, New Hampshire (d. 1913)
1937 - George Thoma, German cross country ski jumper (Olympic gold 1960), born in Newstadt, Germany