1627 John Ray (born), English historian (died 1705)
1729 Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi.
1759 Nicolaus I Bernoulli (died), Swiss mathematician (born 1687)
1803 Christian Doppler (born), Austrian physicist (died 1853)
1832 Louisa May Alcott (born), American author (died 1888)
1877 Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.
1898 C. S. Lewis (born), Irish author and poet (died 1963)
1902 The Pittsburgh Stars defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 11-0, at the Pittsburgh Coliseum, to win the first championship associated with a national professional football league.
1929 U.S. Admiral Richard Byrd becomes the first person to fly over the South Pole.
1940 Chuck Mangione (born), American horn player and composer
1961 Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbited the Earth twice and splashed-down off Puerto Rico.
1963 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
1967 U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation.
1972 Atari announces the release of Pong, the first commercially successful video game.
1975 Graham Hill (died), English race car driver (born 1929)
1982 Ashley Force (born), American race car driver
1993 J. R. D. Tata (died), French-Indian pilot and businessman, founded Tata Motors and Tata Global Beverages (born 1904)
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