63 BCAugustus (born), Roman emperor (died 14)
1215 Kublai Khan (born), Mongolian emperor (died 1294)
1338 The Battle of Arnemuiden was the first naval battle of the Hundred Years’ War and the first naval battle using artillery, as the English ship Christofer had three cannon and one hand gun.
1568 Spanish naval forces rout an English fleet, under the command of John Hawkins, at the Battle of San Juan de Ulúa near Veracruz.
1598 Eleonore Gonzaga (born), Italian wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1655)
1641 The Merchant Royal, carrying a treasure worth over a billion US dollars, is lost at sea off Land’s End.
1642 First commencement exercises occur at Harvard College.
1713 Ferdinand VI of Spain (born) (died 1759)
1738 Herman Boerhaave (died), Dutch botanist and physician (born 1668)
1779 American Revolution: John Paul Jones on board the USS Bonhomme Richard wins the Battle of Flamborough Head.
1780 American Revolution: British Major John André is arrested as a spy by American soldiers exposing Benedict Arnold’s change of sides.
1800 William Holmes McGuffey (born), American educator and author (died 1873)
1806 Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
1830 Elizabeth Monroe (died), American wife of James Monroe, 5th First Lady of the United States (born 1768)
1835 Vincenzo Bellini (died), Italian composer (born 1801)
1838 Victoria Woodhull (born), American journalist and activist (died 1927)
1845 The Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under the modern rules, is founded in New York.
1846 Astronomers Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle collaborate on the discovery of Neptune.
1846 John Ainsworth Horrocks (died), English explorer (born 1818)
1852 William Stewart Halsted (born), American surgeon (died 1922)
1861 Robert Bosch (born), German engineer and businessman, founded Robert Bosch GmbH (died 1942)
1869 Typhoid Mary (born), Irish-American carrier of Typhoid fever (died 1938)
1870 Prosper Mérimée (died), French archaeologist and historian (born 1803)
1880 John Boyd Orr (born), 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish biologist, physician, and educator, Nobel Prize Laureate (died 1971)
1889 Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
1889 Walter Lippmann (born), American journalist (died 1974)
1897 Walter Pidgeon (born), Canadian-American actor and singer (died 1984)
1900 William Marsh Rice (died), American businessman, founded Rice University (born 1816)
1909 The Phantom of the Opera (original title: Le Fantôme de l’Opéra), a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux, is first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.
1913 Roland Garros of France becomes the first to fly in an airplane across the Mediterranean (from St. Raphael France to Bizerte, Tunisia).
1916 Aldo Moro (born), Italian politician, 39th Prime Minister of Italy (died 1978)
1920 Mickey Rooney (born), American actor, singer, director, and producer (died 2014)
1923 Margaret Pellegrini (born), American actress (died 2013)
1926 André Cassagnes (born), French toy maker, created the Etch A Sketch (died 2013)
1926 John Coltrane (born), American saxophonist and composer (Miles Davis Quintet) (died 1967)
1927 Mighty Joe Young (born), American singer and guitarist (died 1999)
1928 Roger Grimsby (born), American journalist, television news anchor and actor (died 1995)
1930 Colin Blakely (born), Irish-English actor (died 1987)
1930 Ray Charles (born), American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (died 2004)
1932 The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd is renamed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
1936 First ascent of Siniolchu by a German team.
1939 Sigmund Freud (died), Czech-English neurologist and psychiatrist (born 1856)
1943 Julio Iglesias (born), Spanish singer-songwriter
1943 Marty Schottenheimer (born), American football player and coach
1947 Neal Smith (born), American drummer and songwriter (Plasmatics)
1948 Dan Toler (born), American guitarist (The Allman Brothers Band and Gregg Allman Band) (died 2013)
1948 Don Grolnick (born), American pianist and composer (died 1996)
1949 Bruce Springsteen (born), American singer-songwriter and guitarist (E Street Band and Steel Mill)
1950 Korean War: The Battle of Hill 282 the first US friendly-fire incident on British military personnel since World War II occurred.
1952 Richard Nixon makes his “Checkers speech”.
1959 Iowa farmer and corn breeder Roswell Garst hosts Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev.
1961 Chi McBride (born), American actor
1962 The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts opens in New York City.
1969 The Chicago Eight trial opens in Chicago.
1971 James Waddell Alexander II (died), American mathematician and topologist (born 1888)
1972 Ana Marie Cox (born), American author and blogger
1973 Juan Perón returns to power in Argentina.
1974 Cliff Arquette (died), American actor (born 1905)
1974 Robbie McIntosh (died), Scottish drummer (Average White Band and The Senate) (born 1950)
1983 Saint Kitts and Nevis joins the United Nations.
2002 The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox (“Phoenix 0.1”) is released.
2013 Ruth Patrick (died), American botanist and limnologist (born 1907)
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