1734 Daniel Boone American explorer (died 1820)
1755 Marie Antoinette, Austrian wife of Louis XVI of France (died 1793)
1898 Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team.
1913 Burt Lancaster (born), American actor (died 1994)
1920 In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the U.S. presidential election, 1920.
1930 Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
1936 The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established.
1947 In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose or H-4 The Hercules; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.
1950 George Bernard Shaw (died), Irish playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1856)
1957 The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity.
1959 Quiz show scandals: Twenty One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.
1959 The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway
1960 Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd., the Lady Chatterley’s Lover case
1961 James Thurber (died), American author and illustrator (born 1894)
1965 Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.
1966 The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
1967 Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson and “The Wise Men” conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.
1984 Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
1988 The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
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