Events
1793 - George Washington holds the first Cabinet meeting as President of the United States.
1836 - Samuel Colt receives an American patent for the Colt revolver.
1837 - First US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport
Births
1841 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, painter
1901 - Zeppo Marx, actor (d. 1979)
1917 - Anthony Burgess, author (d. 1993)
1935 - Sally Jessy Raphael, talk show host
1943 - George Harrison, musician (d. 2001)
1971 - Sean Astin, actor
Deaths
1983 - Tennessee Williams, playwright (b. 1911)