1429 Joan of Arc liberates Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier.
1501 Catherine of Aragon (later Henry VIII’s first wife) meets Arthur Tudor, Henry VIII’s older brother – they would later marry.
1783 Mozart’s Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria.
1791 The Western Confederacy of American Indians wins a major victory over the United States in the Battle of the Wabash.
1847 Felix Mendelssohn (died), German composer (born 1809)
1861 The University of Washington opens in Seattle, Washington as the Territorial University.
1879 Will Rogers (born), American actor (died 1935)
1916 Ruth Handler (born), American businesswoman, created Barbie (died 2002)
1916 Walter Cronkite (born), American journalist (died 2009)
1918 Art Carney (born), American actor (died 2003)
1922 In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
1924 Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected the first female governor in the United States.
1937 Loretta Swit (born), American actress
1946 Laura Bush (born), American educator, 45th First Lady of the United States
1946 Robert Mapplethorpe (born), American photographer (died 1989)
1952 The United States government establishes the National Security Agency.
1953 Jacques Villeneuve (born), Canadian race car driver
1955 After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven’s Fidelio.
1960 Dr. Jane Goodall observes chimpanzees creating tools at the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania for the first time.
1960 Kathy Griffin (born), American comedian and actress
1969 Matthew McConaughey (born), American actor
1979 Iran hostage crisis begins: a group of Iranians, mostly students, invades the US embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages.
1995 Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated.
1995 Yitzhak Rabin (died), Israeli politician, 5th Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1922)
2008 Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States.
2011 Andy Rooney (died), American radio and television host (born 1919)
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