1945
–British rock singer and song writer Rod Stewart was born.
1951-
Sinclair Lewis b. was found dead in Rome. (American author, first American to
win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1930 for Babbitt, 1922).
1863-The
first underground passenger railway, the Metropolitan, opened in London
1776-Thomas
Paine's Common Sense, which greatly influenced the authors of the Declaration
of Independence, was published.
2003-North
Korea announced that it was withdrawing from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty.
