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Events
- 1979 – Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.
- 1985 – Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
Births
- 1722 – Benjamin Chew, American lawyer and judge (d. 1810)
- 1752 – George Rogers Clark, American military officer (d. 1818)
- 1831 – James A. Garfield, American politician, 20th President of the United States (d. 1881)