855 Lothair I (died), Roman emperor (born 795)
1227 Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for his failure to participate in the Crusades.
1511 Michael Servetus (born), Spanish physician, cartographer, and theologian (died 1553)
1547 Miguel de Cervantes (born), Spanish author, poet, and playwright (died 1616)
1561 Adriaan van Roomen (born), Flemish mathematician (died 1615)
1567 At a dinner, the Duke of Alba arrests the Count of Egmont and the Count of Hoorn for treason.
1571 Caravaggio (born), Italian painter (died 1610)
1703 François Boucher (born), French painter (died 1770)
1758 Horatio Nelson (born), 1st Viscount Nelson, English admiral (died 1805)
1766 Charlotte (born), Princess Royal of England (died 1828)
1789 The 1st United States Congress adjourns.
1789 The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
1803 Jacques Charles François Sturm (born), French mathematician (died 1850)
1803 Mercator Cooper (born), American captain (died 1872)
1829 The Metropolitan Police of London, later also known as the Met, is founded.
1833 Ferdinand VII of Spain (died) (born 1784)
1842 Louis J. Weichmann (born), American clerk, witness in the trial of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (died 1902)
1881 Ludwig von Mises (born), Austrian-American economist, sociologist and philosopher (died 1973)
1885 The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
1887 Bernhard von Langenbeck (died), German surgeon (born 1810)
1895 Joseph Banks Rhine (born), American botanist and parapsychologist (died 1980)
1898 Trofim Lysenko (born), Ukrainian-Russian biologist and agronomist (died 1976)
1899 László Bíró (born), Hungarian-Argentinian inventor, invented the ballpoint pen (died 1985)
1901 Enrico Fermi (born), Italian-American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1954)
1902 Émile Zola (died), French journalist, author, and playwright (born 1840)
1904 Greer Garson (born), English-American actress and singer (died 1996)
1907 Gene Autry (born), American singer and actor (died 1998)
1907 George W. Jenkins (born), American businessman, founded Publix (died 1996)
1907 The cornerstone is laid at Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital.
1912 Michelangelo Antonioni (born), Italian director and screenwriter (died 2007)
1913 Rudolf Diesel (died), German engineer, invented the Diesel Engine (born 1858)
1913 Stanley Kramer (born), American director and producer (died 2001)
1913 Trevor Howard (born), English actor (died 1988)
1921 Franny Beecher (born), American guitarist (Bill Haley & His Comets) (died 2014)
1923 Stan Berenstain (born), American author and illustrator (died 2005)
1927 Willem Einthoven (died), Indonesian-Dutch physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1860)
1931 Anita Ekberg (born), Swedish model and actress
1934 Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (born), Hungarian-American psychologist and educator
1935 Jerry Lee Lewis (born), American singer-songwriter and pianist
1936 Silvio Berlusconi (born), Italian businessman and politician, 50th Prime Minister of Italy
1939 Larry Linville (born), American actor (died 2000)
1942 Ian McShane (born), English actor, director, and producer
1942 Jean-Luc Ponty (born), French violinist and composer (Mahavishnu Orchestra and Return to Forever)
1942 Madeline Kahn (born), American actress and singer (died 1999)
1943 Lech Wałęsa (born), Polish politician, 2nd President of Poland, Nobel Prize laureate
1944 Mike Post (born), American composer
1946 Ian Wallace (born), English drummer (King Crimson and Crimson Jazz Trio) (died 2007)
1948 Mark Farner (born), American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Grand Funk Railroad and Terry Knight and the Pack)
1948 Mike Pinera (born), American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Blues Image, Iron Butterfly, Cactus, and Ramatam)
1949 The Communist Party of China writes the Common Programme for the future People’s Republic of China.
1951 The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast in the United States, a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised on NBC.
1954 The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
1955 Ken Weatherwax (born), American actor
1956 Sebastian Coe (born), English sprinter and politician
1957 20 MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk.
1957 Andrew Dice Clay (born), American comedian and actor
1960 Nikita Khrushchev, leader of Soviet Union, disrupts a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly with a number of angry outbursts.
1962 Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite, is launched.
1964 The Argentine comic strip Mafalda is published for the first time.
1966 The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced.
1967 Carson McCullers (died), American author (born 1917)
1971 Oman joins the Arab League.
1972 Oliver Gavin (born), English race car driver
1973 W. H. Auden (died), English-American poet (born 1907)
1975 Casey Stengel (died), American baseball player and manager (born 1890)
1979 Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to visit Ireland.
1982 The 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders begin when the first of seven individuals dies in metropolitan Chicago.
1987 Henry Ford II (died), American businessman (born 1917)
1988 Charles Addams (died), American cartoonist (born 1912)
1988 Space Shuttle: NASA launches STS-26, the return to flight mission, after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
1990 Construction of the Washington National Cathedral is completed.
1990 The YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
2001 Nguyen Van Thieu (died), Vietnamese general and politician, 5th President of South Vietnam (born 1923)
2007 Calder Hall, the world’s first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.
2008 Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history.
2010 Tony Curtis (died), American actor, singer, and producer (born 1925)
2012 Arthur Ochs Sulzberger (died), American publisher (born 1926)
2013 Over 42 people are killed by members of Boko Haram at the College of Agriculture in Gujba, Nigeria.
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