1868 – Christopher Latham Sholes receives patent for inventing the typeWriter.
1894 – The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris.
1940 – Adolf Hitler surveys Paris following Nazi occupation of France.
1972 – U.S. President Richard Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the CIA to obstruct the FBI investigation into the Watergate break-ins.