1825 Johann Strauss II (born), Austrian composer (died 1899)
1838 Georges Bizet (born), French composer (died 1875)
1856 Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger (born), Croatian geologist, paleontologist, and archeologist (died 1936)
1864 John Francis Dodge (born), American businessman, co-founded the Dodge Company (died 1920)
1881 Pablo Picasso (born), Spanish painter and sculptor (died 1973)
1921 Bat Masterson (born), American journalist and sheriff (born 1853)
1962 Cuban missile crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows photos at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council proving that Soviet missiles are installed in Cuba.
1962 Nelson Mandela is sentenced to five years in prison.
1977 Digital Equipment Corporation releases Open VMS v1.0.
1983 Operation Urgent Fury: The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters areexecuted in a coup d’état.
1991 Bill Graham (died), German-American concert promoter (born 1931)
1995 Bobby Riggs (died), American tennis player (born 1918)
2012 Jacques Barzun (died), French-American historian and author (born 1907)
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