1811: Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"

1820: Bookseller John Bartlett, compiler of "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations"

1909: Actor and folk singer Burl Ives

1916: Dorothy McGuirre, singer (McGuirre Sisters) - some sources list 1918

1919: Actor director Sam Wanamaker

1921: Actor Gene Barry (Burke's Law)

1925: Pierre Salinger, ABC newsman, White House press secretary for Kennedy

1928: Cuban revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara

1928: Pianist-composer Cy Coleman

1931: Actress Marla Gibbs

1933: Author Jerzy Kosinski

1940: Actor Jack Bannon

1945: Rock singer Rod Argent (The Zombies; Argent)

1946: Joan Van Ark

1946: Real estate developer Donald Trump

1949: Rock musician Alan White (Yes)

1952: Actor Eddie Mekka

1954: Actor Will Patton

1958: Olympic speed Eric Heiden

1961: Androgynous rock musician George "Boy George" Dowd, (Culture Club)

1963: Rock musician Chris DeGarmo (Queensryche)

1968: Actress Jasmine Bleeth

1969: Tennis player Steffi Graff (in West Germany)

1971: Actress Traylor Howard ("Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place")      

1992:  Actor Daryl Sabara ("Spy Kids")
         

0510 BC: Rome becomes a republic (one suggested date)

0847: Death of St. Methodius of Constantinople

1170: Coronation of Henry III as King of England

1272: Founding of Gouda, Holland

1334: The Mongol Khatun (Princess) Bayalun journeys to Constantinople

1497: Murder of Duke of Gandia

1574: Henry of Valois, King of Poland, flees his Kingdom

1594: Orlando di Lasso died in Munich. He was 62. Orlando was one of the first composers to routinely compose polyphonic music, multiple melodies going at one time. Without Orlando, Bach might not have been possible.

1642: 1st compulsory education law in America passed, by Massachusetts

1775: United States Army founded.

1777: Continental Congress in Philadelphia adopts Stars and Stripes as U.S. flag, replacing Grand Union flag.

1801: Former Revolutionary War Gen. Benedict Arnold died in London.

1841: The first Canadian parliament opened in Kingston.

1846: Settlers proclaimed the Free Republic of California at Sonoma, adopting the California Bear Flag.

1847: Bunson invents a gas burner.

1850: Fire destroys part of San Francisco.

1863: Battle of Second Winchester, Virginia.

1864: Battle of Pine Mountain. Gen. Leonidas Polk killed in action.

1870: Cincinatti Reds lose after 130 straight wins.

1876: California Street Cable Car Railroad Co. gets it's franchise.

1900: Hawaiian Territorial Government begins.

1917: Gen. Pershing and his HQ staff arrived in Paris during World War I.

1919: First direct airplane crossing of the Atlantic.

1922: Baltimore radio station WEAR first to put on a President (Harding).

1938: Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin.

1940: German forces occupied Paris during World War II.

1942: First bazooka rocket gun produced, Bridgeport, CT.

1944: First B-29 raid against mainland Japan.

1948: TV Guide is first published.

1951: Univac 1, the world's first commercial computer was unveiled and demonstrated in Philadephia PA. It was designed for use by the U.S. Bureau of the Census.

1952: Keel laid for first nuclear powered submarine, the Nautilus.

1954: President Eisenhower signs order adding words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance.

1967: Mariner V launched from Cape Kennedy on a flight past Venus.

1973: EMI's Reflexe label was established. They were authentic when authentic wasn't cool. But the much newer Virgin Veritas label has been very successful, especially with its recordings of Charles Mackerras and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

1976: The Gong Show premiers.

1977: M. L. King killer James Earl Ray recaptured after prison break.

1978: Down 9-7 in the 10th with 2 outs Yanks Paul Blair hits a 3 run homer.

1982: Argentina surrenders to Britain on Falkland (Malvinas) Islands ending 74-day conflict.

1983: Health Secretary Margaret Heckler said her department would give top priority to finding the cause and a cure for AIDS.

1985: Lebanese Shiite gunmen hijack TWA flight 847 after Athens' takeoff.

1986: Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges in Geneva dies at age 86.

1986: Death claimed Broadway librettist Alan Jay Lerner in NY at age 67.

1986: `Wild Kingdom' host Marlin Perkins dies near St Louis at age 81.

1989: House Democrats chose Richard Gephardt to be majority leader and William H. Gray to be majority whip.

1989: House Democrats chose Richard Gephardt to be majority leader and William H. Gray to be majority whip.

1989: Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was arrested for slapping a Beverly Hills motorcycle patrolman.

1990: The Supreme Court, 6-3, upheld police checkpoints that examine drivers for signs of intoxication.

1991: The government reported consumer prices had risen a modest three-tenths of 1 percent in May.

1991: Actress Dame Peggy Ashcroft died in London at age 83.

1991: The space shuttle "Columbia" returned from a medical research mission. 

1992: The Earth Summit concluded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

1992: The Chicago Bulls won the NBA championship, beating the Portland Trailblazers in game six, 97-to-93.

1992: Mona Van Duyn became the first woman to be named the nation's poet laureate by the Library of Congress.

1993: President Clinton chose Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an advocate of women's rights, to serve on the Supreme Court, surprising observers who predicted Clinton's choice would be Judge Stephen Breyer.

1994: Academy Award-winning composer Henry Mancini died in Beverly Hills, California, at age 70.

1994: The New York Rangers won hockey's Stanley Cup for the first time in 54 years as they defeated the Vancouver Canucks at Madison Square Garden.

1994: President Clinton unveiled a $9.3 billion-dollar welfare reform plan.

1995: Stephen P. Yokich was elected president of the United Auto Workers at the union's triennial convention in Anaheim, California.

1996: The FBI disclosed the White House had obtained bureau background reports on at least 408 people without justification.

1996: World copper markets were thrown into turmoil following disclosure by Sumitomo Corp. that a rogue trader had hidden multibillion-dollar losses.

1997: Hong Kong's future legislature rammed through two laws Saturday to curb political freedoms and civil rights when China takes back the 156-year-old British colony in little more than two weeks' time.

1997: The winter's near record snowpack melted into floodwaters, prompting seven Idaho counties to declare disasters as other counties braced for overflowing rivers.

1998: The Chicago Bulls clinched their sixth NBA championship, defeating the Utah Jazz in game six played in Salt Lake City, 87-to-86.

1999: About 15,000 NATO peacekeepers spread out across Kosovo, including a convoy of about 1,200 U.S. Marines.

1999: The Supreme Court opened the door to full broadcast advertising of casino gambling, ruling a federal ban aimed at protecting compulsive gamblers violated free-speech rights.

2000: A retired Army Reserve colonel, George Trofimoff (73), was accused of spying for the Soviet Union and Russia for 25 years. He allegedly sold military secrets to the Soviets when he was a civilian employee of the U.S. Army at an installation in West Germany where refugees and defectors from the Soviet bloc were interrogated.

2000: In the biggest step toward peace since the end of the Korean War, the leaders of North and South Korea signed an agreement pledging to work for reconciliation and eventual reunification.

2000: Risking a wider split in the nation's largest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention declared that women should no longer serve as pastors.