582 Maurice becomes Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire.
1099 Pope Paschal II succeeds Pope Urban II as the 160th pope.
1382 Eleanor of Aragon (died), Queen of Castile (born 1358)
1521 After an extended siege, forces led by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés capture Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc and conquer the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.
1553 Michael Servetus is arrested by John Calvin in Geneva, Switzerland as a heretic.
1624 The French king Louis XIII appoints Cardinal Richelieu as prime minister
1625 Rasmus Bartholin (born), Danish physician, mathematician, and physicist (died 1698)
1666 William Wotton (born), English linguist and scholar (died 1727)
1700 Heinrich von Brühl (born), German politician (died 1763)
1721 Jacques Lelong (died), French bibliographer (born 1665)
1749 Johann Elias Schlegel (died), German poet and critic (born 1719)
1790 William Wentworth (born), Australian journalist, explorer, and politician (died 1872)
1814 Anders Jonas Ångström (born), Swedish physicist (died 1874)
1818 Lucy Stone (born), American activist (died 1893)
1819 Sir George Stokes (born), 1st Baronet, Irish-English mathematician and physicist (died 1903)
1826 René Laennec (died), French physician, invented the stethoscope (born 1781)
1831 Nat Turner sees a solar eclipse, which he believes is a sign from God. Eight days later he and 70 other slaves kill approximately 55 whites in Southampton County, Virginia.
1860 Annie Oakley (born), American target shooter (died 1926)
1863 Eugène Delacroix (died), French painter (born 1798)
1866 Giovanni Agnelli (born), Italian businessman, founded Fiat S.p.A (died 1945)
1879 John Ireland (born), English composer (died 1962)
1888 John Logie Baird (born), Scottish engineer, invented the television (died 1946)
1895 Bert Lahr (born), American actor and singer (died 1967)
1898 Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.
1899 Alfred Hitchcock (born), English-American director and producer (died 1980)
1902 Felix Wankel (born), German engineer (died 1988)
1906 The all black infantrymen of the U.S. Army’s 25th Infantry Regiment are accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence; all are later dishonorably discharged.
1910 Florence Nightingale (died), Italian-English nurse (born 1820)
1912 Ben Hogan (born), American golfer (died 1997)
1912 Jules Massenet (died), French composer (born 1842)
1913 First production in the UK of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.
1913 Fred Davis (born), English snooker player (died 1998)
1917 Eduard Buchner (died), German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1860)
1918 Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established as a public company in Germany.
1918 Frederick Sanger (born), English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)
1918 Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha Mae Johnson is the first woman to enlist.
1919 George Shearing (born), English-American pianist (died 2011)
1919 Rex Humbard (born), American evangelist and television host (died 2007)
1920 Neville Brand (born), American actor (died 1992)
1926 Fidel Castro (born), Cuban lawyer and politician, 15th President of Cuba
1930 Don Ho (born), American singer and ukulele player (died 2007)
1933 Joycelyn Elders (born), American admiral and physician, 15th Surgeon General of the United States
1935 Mudcat Grant (born), American baseball player
1942 Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the “Development of Substitute Materials” project, better known as the Manhattan Project.
1942 Walt Disney’s 5th full-length animated film, Bambi, was released to theaters.
1946 H. G. Wells (died), English journalist and author (born 1866)
1948 Scott Powell (born), American singer (Sha Na Na)
1951 Dan Fogelberg (born), American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2007)
1952 Hughie Thomasson (born), American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Outlaws and Lynyrd Skynyrd) (died 2007)
1958 Otto Witte (died), German acrobat (born 1868)
1960 The Central African Republic declares independence from France.
1961 East Germany closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin to thwart its inhabitants’ attempts to escape to the West.
1963 Valerie Plame (born), American CIA agent and author
1969 Midori Ito (born), Japanese figure skater
1969 The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine to enjoy a ticker tape parade in New York, New York. That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, California, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Richard Nixon.
1972 Kevin Plank (born), American businessman, founded Under Armour
1975 Joe Perry (born), English snooker player
1982 Joe Tex (died), American singer-songwriter (born 1933)
1986 Helen Mack (died), American actress and singer (born 1913)
1986 Way Bandy (died), American make-up artist (born 1941)
1989 Tim Richmond (died), American race car driver (born 1955)
1995 Alison Hargreaves (died), English mountaineer (born 1963)
1995 Mickey Mantle (died), American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1931)
1995 Rob Slater (died), American mountaineer (born 1960)
2004 Julia Child (died), American chef (born 1912)
2007 Brooke Astor (died), American philanthropist (born 1902)
2009 Les Paul (died), American guitarist and songwriter (born 1915)
2012 Helen Gurley Brown (died), American journalist and author (born 1922)
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