1475 Beatrice d’Este (born), Italian wife of Ludovico Sforza (died 1497)
1517 Rembert Dodoens (born), Flemish physician and botanist (died 1585)
1534 Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island.
1613 The Globe Theatre in London, England burns to the ground.
1746 Joachim Heinrich Campe (born), German linguist, educator, and author (died 1818)
1764 Ralph Allen (died), English businessman and philanthropist (born 1693)
1776 Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.
1776 First privateer battle of the American Revolutionary War fought at Turtle Gut Inlet near Cape May, New Jersey
1786 Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
1793 Josef Ressel (born), Czech-Austrian inventor, invented the propeller (died 1857)
1855 John Gorrie (died), American physician and humanitarian (born 1803)
1858 George Washington Goethals (born), American general and engineer, co-designed the Panama Canal (died 1928)
1858 Julia Lathrop (born), American activist (died 1932)
1861 Elizabeth Barrett Browning (died), English poet (born 1806)
1861 William James Mayo (born), American physician, co-founded the Mayo Clinic (died 1939)
1868 George Ellery Hale (born), American astronomer (died 1938)
1873 Leo Frobenius (born), German ethnologist and archaeologist (died 1938)
1880 France annexes Tahiti.
1888 George Edward Gouraud records Handel’s Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
1889 Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population.
1895 Thomas Henry Huxley (died), English biologist (born 1825)
1901 Nelson Eddy (born), American singer and actor (died 1967)
1903 Alan Blumlein (born), English engineer, developed the H2S radar (died 1942)
1908 Leroy Anderson (born), American composer and conductor (died 1975)
1914 Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.
1919 Slim Pickens (born), American actor (died 1983)
1928 The Outerbridge Crossing and Goethals Bridge in Staten Island, New York are both opened.
1933 Roscoe Arbuckle (died), American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1887)
1940 Paul Klee (died), Swiss painter (born 1879)
1941 Stokely Carmichael (born), Trinidadian-American activist (died 1998)
1943 Little Eva (born), American singer (died 2003)
1944 Gary Busey (born), American actor
1948 Ian Paice (born), English drummer, songwriter, and producer (Deep Purple and Paice Ashton Lord)
1953 Colin Hay (born), Scottish-Australian singer, guitarist, and actor (Men at Work)
1956 The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
1967 Jayne Mansfield (died), American actress and singer (born 1933)
1971 Anthony Hamilton (born), English snooker player
1972 The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the case Furman v. Georgia that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
1973 George Hincapie (born), American cyclist
1974 Isabel Perón is sworn in as the first female President of Argentina. Her husband, President Juan Peron, had delegated responsibility due to weak health and died two days later.
1974 Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with the Kirov Ballet.
1975 Steve Wozniak tested his first prototype of Apple I computer.
1975 Tim Buckley (died), American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1947)
1976 Bret McKenzie (born), New Zealand comedian, actor, guitarist, and producer (Flight of the Conchords, The Black Seeds, So You’re a Man, and Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra)
1976 The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
1978 Nicole Scherzinger (born), American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (Pussycat Dolls and Eden’s Crush)
1979 Lowell George (died), American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Little Feat and The Mothers of Invention) (born 1945)
1990 Irving Wallace (died), American author and screenwriter (born 1916)
1995 Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.
2002 Ole-Johan Dahl (died), Norwegian computer scientist (born 1931)
2002 Rosemary Clooney (died), American singer and actress (born 1928)
2003 Katharine Hepburn (died), American actress and singer (born 1907)
2006 Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush’s plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law.
2007 Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone.
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