1403 Thomas Percy (died), 1st Earl of Worcester, English rebel (born 1343)
1632 Three hundred colonists bound for New France depart from Dieppe, France.
1727 Simon Harcourt (died), 1st Viscount Harcourt, English politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (born 1661)
1773 George Edwards (died), English biologist and ornithologist (born 1693)
1775 Étienne-Louis Malus (born), French physicist and mathematician (died 1812)
1829 In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter.
1840 The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union.
1856 Arthur Bird (born), American-German composer (died 1923)
1865 Max Heindel (born), Danish occultist and mystic (died 1919)
1874 Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa, India.
1875 Isaac Singer (died), American businessman, founded the Singer Corporation (born 1811)
1885 Georges V. Matchabelli (born), Georgian-American businessman, created Prince Matchabelli perfume (died 1935)
1885 Ulysses S. Grant (died), American general and politician, 18th President of the United States (born 1822)
1888 Raymond Chandler (born), American author (died 1959)
1892 Haile Selassie I (born), Ethiopian emperor (died 1975)
1894 Arthur Treacher (born), English-American actor and singer (died 1975)
1903 The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
1918 Pee Wee Reese (born), American baseball player and sportscaster (died 1999)
1921 Calvert DeForest (born), American actor (died 2007)
1926 Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
1927 The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
1928 Hubert Selby, Jr. (born), American author (died 2004)
1929 The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words.
1933 Richard Rogers (born), Italian-English architect, designed the Millennium Dome and Lloyd’s building
1935 Jim Hall (born), American race car driver
1936 Anthony Kennedy (born), American jurist
1936 In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of Socialist and Communist parties.
1940 Don Imus (born), American radio host
1943 Tony Joe White (born), American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1944 Dino Danelli (born), American drummer (The Rascals and Fotomaker)
1948 D. W. Griffith (died), American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1875)
1950 Blair Thornton (born), Canadian guitarist and songwriter (Bachman–Turner Overdrive)
1952 Janis Siegel (born), American singer (The Manhattan Transfer)
1952 John Rutsey (born), Canadian drummer (Rush) (died 2008)
1961 The Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded in Nicaragua.
1961 Woody Harrelson (born), American actor
1962 Eriq La Salle (born), American actor, director, and producer
1962 Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
1965 Slash (born), English-American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Guns N’ Roses, Velvet Revolver, Hollywood Rose, and Road Crew)
1967 12th Street Riot: in Detroit, Michigan, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city. It will leave 43 killed, 342 injured and 1,400 buildings burned.
1967 Philip Seymour Hoffman (born), American actor, director, and producer (died 2014)
1968 Glenville Shootout: in Cleveland, Ohio, a violent shootout between a Black Militant organization led by Ahmed Evans and the Cleveland Police Department occurs. During the shootout, a riot begins and lasts for five days.
1968 The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying 10 crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The aircraft was en route from Rome, Italy, to Lod, Israel.
1971 Van Heflin (died), American actor (born 1910)
1972 The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.
1973 Eddie Rickenbacker (died), American pilot and race car driver, founded Rickenbacker Motors (born 1890)
1973 Monica Lewinsky (born), American White House intern, author, and handbag designer
1980 Keith Godchaux (died), American keyboard player and songwriter (Grateful Dead and Heart of Gold Band) (born 1948)
1982 The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling by 1985-86.
1982 Vic Morrow (died), American actor and director (born 1929)
1984 Vanessa Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown after nude photos of her appeared in Penthouse magazine.
1986 In London, England, Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey.
1986 Nelson Philippe (born), French race car driver
1992 A Vatican commission, led by Joseph Ratzinger, establishes that limiting certain rights of homosexual people and non-married couples is not equivalent to discrimination on grounds of race or gender.
1995 Comet Hale–Bopp is discovered; it will become visible to the naked eye nearly a year later.
1997 Digital Equipment Corporation files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel.
2001 Eudora Welty (died), American author (born 1909)
2005 Three bombs explode in the Naama Bay area of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people.
2011 Amy Winehouse (died), English singer-songwriter (born 1983)
2012 Sally Ride (died), American physicist and astronaut (born 1951)
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