1430 Margaret of Anjou (born) (died 1482)
1555 Pope Julius III (died) (born 1487)
1599 Thomas Selle (born), German composer (died 1663)
1675 Anthoni van Noordt (died), Dutch organist and composer (born 1619)
1699 John Bartram (born), American botanist and explorer (died 1777)
1749 Pierre-Simon Laplace (born), French mathematician and astronomer (died 1827)
1769 William Smith (born), English geologist and cartographer (died 1839)
1775 American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his speech “Give me Liberty, or give me Death!” at St. John’s Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia.
1806 After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their “Corps of Discovery” begin their arduous journey home.
1821 Greek War of Independence: Battle and fall of city of Kalamata.
1857 Elisha Otis’s first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City.
1868 The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law.
1887 Felix Yusupov (born), Russian assassin of Grigori Rasputin (died 1967)
1888 In England, The Football League, the world’s oldest professional Association Football league, meets for the first time.
1900 Erich Fromm (born), German psychologist and sociologist (died 1980)
1909 Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
1910 Akira Kurosawa (born), Japanese director, screenwriter, and producer (died 1998)
1912 Wernher von Braun (born), German physicist and engineer (died 1977)
1919 In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.
1921 Donald Campbell (born), English race car driver (died 1967)
1924 Bette Nesmith Graham (born), American inventor, invented Liquid Paper (died 1980)
1929 Roger Bannister (born), English runner
1933 The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
1937 Craig Breedlove (born), American race car driver
1942 World War II: In the Indian Ocean, Japanese forces capture the Andaman Islands.
1949 Ric Ocasek (born), American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Cars)
1953 Chaka Khan (born), American singer-songwriter (Rufus)
1954 Kenneth Cole (born), American fashion designer, founded Kenneth Cole Productions
1956 Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world. (Republic Day in Pakistan)
1962 NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, is launched as a showcase for Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace initiative.
1965 NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States’ first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
1976 Ricardo Zonta (born), Brazilian race car driver
1983 –President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles.
1989 Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announce their discovery of cold fusion at the University of Utah.
2001 The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
2002 Eileen Farrell (died), American soprano (born 1920)
2003 Battle of Nasiriyah, first major conflict during the invasion of Iraq.
2005 Texas City Refinery explosion: During a test on a distillation tower liquid waste builds up and flows out of a blowout tower. Waste fumes ignite and explode killing 15 workers.
2011 Elizabeth Taylor (died), English-American actress (born 1932)
2013 Joe Weider (died), Canadian-American bodybuilder and publisher, co-founded the International Federation of Body Building & Fitness and Muscle & Fitness Magazine (born 1919)
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