1788 – A fire in New Orleans leaves most of the town in ruins.
1843 – Guadalupe Victoria, Mexican general and politician, 1st President of Mexico (b. 1786) dies.
1904 – Forrest Mars, Sr., American candy maker, created M&M's and Mars bar (d. 1999) is born.
1910 – Julio Gallo, American businessman, co-founded E & J Gallo Winery (d. 1993) is born.
1913 – Over 360 are killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio.
1925 – The Butler Act prohibits the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee.
1928 – Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
1943 – Wehrmacht officer Rudolf von Gersdorff plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan falls through. Von Gersdorff is able to defuse the bomb in time and avoid suspicion.
1946 – The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in the American football since 1933.
1952 – Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.
1962 – Rosie O'Donnell, American actress, producer, and talk show host is born.
1965 – Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
1965 – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
1970 – The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Mayor of San Francisco Joseph Alioto.
1980 – US President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
1980 – Dallas airs its "A House Divided" episode, which leads to eight months of international speculation regarding Who shot J.R.?
1986 – Debi Thomas became the first African American to win the World Figure Skating Championships
1989 – Sports Illustrated reports allegations tying baseball player Pete Rose to baseball gambling.
1997 – Wilbert Awdry, English cleric and author, created Thomas the Tank Engine (b. 1911) dies.
2000 – Pope John Paul II makes his first ever pontifical visit to Israel.
2001 – Chung Ju-yung, South Korean businessman, founded Hyundai (b. 1915) dies.
2006 – The social media site Twitter is founded.
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