622 A.D. — Traditional date of Mohammad’s first arrival in Medina after leaving Mecca.
1187 — Saladin invests Jerusalem in an effort to end Christian rule of the city.
1519 — Ferdinand Magellan departs on his voyage of circumnavigation with five ships and 270 men.
1598 — English playwright and poet Ben Jonson is jailed for manslaughter after killing an actor in a duel.
1641 — The Merchant Royal sinks off Cornwall carrying a vast cargo of gold, silver and pieces of eight.
1664 — British warships force the surrender of Nieu Amsterdam, taking control of the strategic seaport.
1676 — Nathaniel Bacon and his followers burn Jamestown during Bacon’s Rebellion.
1776 — American patriot Nathan Hale is hanged as a spy.
1779 — Battle of Flamborough Head.
1780 — British Maj. John André is arrested carrying Benedict Arnold’s plans for West Point.
1793 — George Washington lays the first cornerstone for the U.S. Capitol building in the District of Columbia.
1806 — Meriwether Lewis and William Clark arrive in St. Louis, completing the Corps of Discovery expedition.
1845 — The Knickerbockers Baseball Club is formed in New York.
1850 — Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act as part of the Compromise of 1850.
1861 — Birth of Robert Bosch.
1863 — Battle of Chickamauga.
1881 — Death of President James Garfield, 80 days after he was shot.
1893 — Charles and Frank Duryea road-test their first gasoline-powered automobile.
1900 — Birth of Ruhullah Khomeini.
1904 — Death of Chief Joseph, leader of the Nez Perce.
1905 — Birth of Greta Garbo.
1927 — Gene Tunney defeats Jack Dempsey in the famous “Long Count” heavyweight championship rematch.
1937 — Publication of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit.
1939 — First broadcast by Nazi propagandist Lord Haw-Haw.
1939 — Death of Sigmund Freud.
1941 — Birth of Cass Elliot.
1941 — Birth of Linda Eastman McCartney.
1942 — First flight of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress.
1943 — Birth of Julio Iglesias.
1945 — Death of German physicist Hans Geiger.
1952 — Charlie Chaplin leaves the United States for England and is subsequently barred from re-entry.
1960 — Launch of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) at Newport News Shipbuilding.
1962 — James Meredith is barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
1964 — First flight of the North American XB-70 Valkyrie supersonic bomber.
1967 — Birth of Faith Hill.
1970 — Death of guitarist Jimi Hendrix.
1973 — Death of singer-songwriter Jim Croce in a plane crash following a concert in Louisiana.
1973 — Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs in the “Battle of the Sexes.”
1975 — Kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst is arrested.
1981 — The U.S. Senate unanimously confirms Sandra Day O’Connor as the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court.
1984 — Retired USAF test pilot Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic Ocean.
1991 — German mountaineers discover Ötzi the Iceman, a roughly 5,300-year-old Copper Age mummy.
1999 — Death of actor George C. Scott.
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