1620 Plymouth Colony settlers sign the Mayflower Compact.
1652 Jan Brożek (died), Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (born 1585)
1694 Voltaire (born), French philosopher (died 1778)
1695 Henry Purcell (died), English composer (born 1659)
1783 In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent, Marquis d’Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.
1787 Samuel Cunard (born), Canadian businessman, founded the Cunard Line (died 1865)
1877 Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.
1902 The Philadelphia Football Athletics defeated the Kanaweola Athletic Club of Elmira, New York, 39-0, in the first ever professionalAmerican football night game.
1905 Albert Einstein’s paper, Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?, is published in the journal, Annalen der Physik. This paper reveals the relationship between energy and mass. This leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc².
1922 Rebecca Ann Latimer Felton (10 June 1835 – 24 January 1930) of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first female United States Senator.
1927 Striking coal miners at the Columbine Mine near Serene, Colorado, are attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes or guards working for the mine.
1931 Lewis Binford (born), American archaeologist (died 2011)
1940 Malcolm John “Mac” Rebennack, Jr., AKA Dr. John (born), American singer-songwriter
1940 Richard Marcinko (born), founder of Navy Seal Team V1, American author
1942 The completion of the Alaska Highway (also known as the Alcan Highway) is celebrated (however, the highway is not usable by general vehicles until 1943).
1948 George Zimmer (born), American businessman, founded Men’s Wearhouse
1953 The British Natural History Museum announces that the “Piltdown Man” skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax.
1959 American disc jockey Alan Freed, who had popularized the term “rock and roll” and music of that style, is fired from WABC-AM radio for refusing to deny allegations that he had participated in the payola scandal.
1969 The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI.
1979 The United States Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan is attacked by a mob and set on fire, killing four.
1980 A deadly fire breaks out at the MGM Grand Hotel in Paradise, Nevada (now Bally’s Las Vegas). 87 people are killed and more than 650 are injured in the worst disaster in Nevada history.
1985 United States Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard is arrested for spying after being caught giving Israel classified information on Arab nations. He is subsequently sentenced to life in prison.
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