1494 Suleiman the Magnificent (born), Ottoman sultan (died 1566)
1528 Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the known European to set foot in Texas.
1851 Charles Dow (born), American journalist and economist (died 1902)
1854 John Philip Sousa (born), American composer (died 1932)
1855 E. S. Gosney (born), American philanthropist and eugenicist, founded the Human Betterment Foundation (died 1942)
1856 Scenes of Clerical Life, the first work of fiction by the author later known as George Eliot, is submitted for publication.
1861 Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.
1869 Rutgers College defeats Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey), 6-4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game.
1893 Edsel Ford (born), American businessman (died 1943)
1893 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (died), Russian composer (born 1840)
1913 Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
1935 Parker Brothers acquires the forerunner patents for MONOPOLY from Elizabeth Magie.
1944 Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
1947 Meet the Press makes its television debut (the show went to a weekly schedule on September 12, 1948).
1948 Glenn Frey (born), American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Eagles)
1964 Arne Duncan (born), American educator, 9th United States Secretary of Education
1965 Cuba and the United States formally agree to begin an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States. By 1971, 250,000 Cubans made use of this program.
1971 The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
1991 The last burning Kuwaiti oil field was extinguished.
1995 Art Modell announces that he signed a deal that would relocate the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore to become the Baltimore Ravens, the first time the city had a football team since 1983 when they were the Baltimore Colts
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