14 Tiberius is confirmed as Roman Emperor by the Roman Senate following the natural death of Augustus
53 Trajan (born), Roman emperor (died 117)
96 Domitian (died), Roman emperor (born 51)
411 Constantine III (died), Roman general and emperor
1180 Louis VII of France (died) (born 1120)
1502 Christopher Columbus lands at Honduras on his fourth, and final, voyage.
1587 Francesca Caccini (born), Italian singer-songwriter and lute player (died 1640)
1679 New Hampshire becomes a county of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1684 Johann Gottfried Walther (born), German organist and composer (died 1748)
1709 Samuel Johnson (born), English lexicographer and author (died 1784)
1765 Pope Gregory XVI (born) (died 1846)
1783 Leonhard Euler (died), Swiss mathematician and physicist (born 1707)
1793 The first cornerstone of the Capitol building is laid by George Washington.
1809 The Royal Opera House in London opens.
1812 The 1812 Fire of Moscow dies down after destroying more than three-quarters of the city. Napoleon returns from the Petrovsky Palace to the Moscow Kremlin, spared from the fire.
1827 Robert Pollok (died), Scottish-English poet (born 1789)
1830 William Hazlitt (died), English philosopher, painter, and critic (born 1778)
1837 Tiffany and Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City. The store is called a “stationery and fancy goods emporium”.
1838 Anton Mauve (born), Dutch painter (died 1888)
1838 The Anti-Corn Law League is established by Richard Cobden.
1846 Richard With (born), Norwegian captain, businessman, and politician, founded Vesteraalens Dampskibsselskab (died 1930)
1848 Francis Grierson (born), English-American pianist and composer (died 1927)
1850 The U.S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.
1851 First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.
1852 Clement Lindley Wragge (born), English meteorologist (died 1922)
1860 Alberto Franchetti (born), Italian-American composer (died 1942)
1870 Clark Wissler (born), American anthropologist (died 1947)
1870 Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn during the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition to Yellowstone.
1872 Carl Friedberg (born), German-Italian pianist and educator (died 1955)
1873 Panic of 1873: The U.S. bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, triggering a series of bank failures.
1882 The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.
1888 Grey Owl (born), English-Canadian environmentalist and author (died 1938)
1888 Toni Wolff (born), Swiss psychologist (died 1953)
1889 Hull House, the United States’ most influential settlement house, opens in Chicago.
1895 Booker T. Washington delivers the “Atlanta Compromise” address.
1895 Daniel David Palmer gives the first chiropractic adjustment.
1905 Greta Garbo (born), Swedish-American actress and singer (died 1990)
1914 Jack Cardiff (born), English director, cinematographer, and photographer (died 2009)
1919 Fritz Pollard becomes the first African-American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.
1919 The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.
1919 Tommy Hunter (born), American fiddler (died 1993)
1922 Hungary is admitted to the League of Nations.
1927 The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
1928 Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
1933 Jimmie Rodgers (born), American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1933 Robert Blake (born), American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1934 The USSR is admitted to the League of Nations.
1935 John Spencer (born), English snooker player (died 2006)
1939 Frankie Avalon (born), American actor and singer
1940 The British liner SS City of Benares is sunk by German submarine U-48; those killed include 77 child refugees.
1945 John McAfee (born), Scottish-American computer programmer, founded McAfee
1947 Giancarlo Minardi (born), Italian businessman, founded the Minardi Racing Team
1947 The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency are established in the United States under the National Security Act.
1947 The United States Air Force becomes an independent branch of the United States armed forces.
1948 Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate without completing another senator’s term, when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten.
1949 Kerry Livgren (born), American guitarist and songwriter (Kansas, AD, and Proto-Kaw)
1951 Dee Dee Ramone (born), American singer-songwriter and bass player (Ramones) (died 2002)
1954 Steven Pinker (born), Canadian-American psychologist, linguist, and author
1958 Joan Walsh (born), American journalist
1959 Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth orbit.
1960 Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.
1961 Dag Hammarskjöld (died), Swedish economist and diplomat, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1905)
1961 James Gandolfini (born), American actor (died 2013)
1961 U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
1962 Boris Said (born), American race car driver
1962 Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.
1964 North Vietnamese Army begins infiltration of South Vietnam.
1970 Jimi Hendrix (died), American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1942)
1971 Lance Armstrong (born), American cyclist and activist, founded the Lance Armstrong Foundation
1973 The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations.
1975 Patty Hearst is arrested after a year on the FBI Most Wanted List.
1977 Voyager I takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
1980 Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (including 1 Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station.
1981 Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France.
1984 Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
1987 Jerzy Kukuczka becomes the second mountaineer to summit all 14 Eight-thousanders.
1990 Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.
1997 United States media magnate Ted Turner donates USD 1 billion to the United Nations.
2001 First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
2007 Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some call the Saffron Revolution.
2007 Pervez Musharraf announces that he will step down as army chief and restore civilian rule to Pakistan, but only after he is re-elected president.
2009 The 72 year run of the soap opera The Guiding Light ends as its final episode is broadcast.
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