1199 John is crowned King of England.
1332 Ibn Khaldun (born), Tunisian historian (died 1406)
1564 John Calvin (died), French pastor and theologian (born 1509)
1610 François Ravaillac (died) French assassin of Henry IV of France (born 1578)
1703 Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
1794 Cornelius Vanderbilt (born), American businessman and philanthropist (died 1877)
1813 War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.
1818 Amelia Bloomer (born), American activist (died 1894)
1819 Julia Ward Howe (born), American poet (died 1910)
1831 Jedediah Smith (died), American hunter, explorer, and author (born 1799)
1836 Jay Gould (born), American businessman and financier (died 1892)
1837 Wild Bill Hickok (born), American lawman (died 1876)
1840 Niccolò Paganini (died), Italian violinist and composer (born 1782)
1849 The Great Hall of Euston station in London is opened.
1879 Karl Bühler (born), German-American linguist and psychologist (died 1963)
1883 Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
1894 Dashiell Hammett (born), American author (died 1961)
1907 Bubonic plague breaks out in San Francisco, California.
1907 Rachel Carson (born), American biologist and author (died 1964)
1910 Robert Koch (died), German physician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1843)
1911 Hubert Humphrey (born), American politician, 38th Vice President of the United States (died 1978)
1911 Vincent Price (born), American actor (died 1993)
1912 Sam Snead (born), American golfer (died 2002)
1915 Herman Wouk (born), American author
1923 Henry Kissinger (born), German-American politician, 56th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate
1925 Tony Hillerman (born), American author (died 2008)
1927 The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
1930 The 1,046 feet (319 m) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.
1933 New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
1933 The Century of Progress World’s Fair opens in Chicago, Illinois.
1933 The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon Three Little Pigs, with its hit song “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?”
1935 Ramsey Lewis (born), American pianist and composer
1936 Louis Gossett, Jr. (born), American actor and producer
1937 In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
1941 World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing almost 2,100 men.
1942 Piers Courage (born), English Grand Prix driver (died 1970)
1948 Pete Sears (born), English bass player (Jefferson Starship, Moonalice, and Hot Tuna)
1949 Robert Ripley (died), American cartoonist, publisher, and businessman, founded Ripley’s Believe It or Not! (born 1890)
1955 Richard Schiff (born), American actor
1956 Cynthia McFadden (born), American journalist
1964 Jawaharlal Nehru (died), Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of India (born 1889)
1967 Australians vote in favor of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census.
1967 The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
1968 Major League Baseball’s National League awards Montreal the first franchise in Canada and the first franchise outside the United States. (Montreal Expos)
1986 Dragon Quest, the game credited as setting the template for role-playing video games, is released in Japan.
1992 Uncle Charlie Osborne (died), American fiddler (born 1890)
1995 In Culpeper, Virginia, the actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition.
1996 First Chechnya War: the Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.
1997 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that Paula Jones can pursue her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton while he is in office.
1998 Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.
2001 Members of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
2007 Ed Yost (died), American inventor, invented the hot air balloon (born 1919)
2007 Gretchen Wyler (died), American actress (born 1932)
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