1532 Commanded by Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Inca Empire leader Atahualpa for the first time outside Cajamarca, arranging a meeting on the city plaza the following day
1533 Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire.
1594 Martin Frobisher (died), English explorer (born 1539)
1738 William Herschel (born), German-English astronomer (died 1822)
1777 After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.
1791 The first U.S Catholic college, Georgetown University, opens its doors.
1806 Pike expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains (it is later named Pikes Peak).
1859 The first modern revival of the Olympic Games takes place in Athens, Greece.
1864 Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman’s March to the Sea.
1887 Georgia O’Keeffe (born), American painter (died 1986)
1890 Richmal Crompton (born), English author (died 1969)
1891 Erwin Rommel (born), German field marshal (died 1944)
1891 W. Averell Harriman (born), American politician, 48th Governor of New York (died 1986)
1905 Mantovani (born), Italian conductor and composer (died 1980)
1917 Émile Durkheim (died), French sociologist (born 1858)
1926 The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
1932 Clyde McPhatter (born), American singer (Billy Ward and His Dominoes and The Drifters) (died 1972)
1932 Petula Clark (born), English actress and singer
1942 The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory.
1943 German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put “on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps”.
1954 Lionel Barrymore (died), American actor (born 1878)
1958 Tyrone Power (died), American actor (born 1914)
1969 In Columbus, Ohio, Dave Thomas opens the first Wendy’s restaurant.
1969 In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic “March Against Death”.
1971 Intel releases world’s first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
1978 Margaret Mead (died), American anthropologist (born 1901)
1979 A package from the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago, Illinois to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
1985 A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
1996 Alger Hiss (died), American lawyer, diplomat, and author (born 1904)
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