World Toilet Day
1493 Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).
1805 Ferdinand de Lesseps (born), French diplomat and engineer, developed the Suez Canal (died 1894)
1828 Franz Schubert (died), Austrian composer (born 1797)
1863 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the military cemetery ceremony at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
1898 Arthur R. von Hippel (born), German-American physicist (died 2003)
1905 Tommy Dorsey (born), American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (The California Ramblers) (died 1956)
1916 Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.
1917 Indira Gandhi (born), Indian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of India (died 1984)
1933 Larry King (born), American journalist and talk show host
1936 Dick Cavett (born), American talk show host
1942 Calvin Klein (born), American fashion designer, founded Calvin Klein Inc.
1944 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling US$14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
1950 US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes Supreme Commander of NATO-Europe
1954 Télé Monte Carlo, Europe’s oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III.
1955 National Review publishes its first issue.
1959 The Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the Edsel.
1969 Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the “Ocean of Storms”) and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
1969 Association football player Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.
1985 In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
1990 Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It’s True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.
1994 In the United Kingdom, the first National Lottery draw is held. A £1 ticket gave a one-in-14-million chance of correctly guessing the winning six out of 49 numbers.
1998 The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1998 Vincent van Gogh’s Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for US$71.5 million.
1999 The People’s Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.
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