1721 – Johann Sebastian Bach dedicated six concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt, now commonly called the Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046–1051.
1874 – Harry Houdini, Hungarian-American magician and actor (d. 1926) is born.
1882 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet and educator (b. 1807) dies.
1882 – Robert Koch announces the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.
1900 – Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
1901 – Ub Iwerks, American animator, director, and producer, co-created Mickey Mouse (d. 1971) is born.
1902 – Thomas E. Dewey, American lawyer and politician, 47th Governor of New York (d. 1971) is born.
1911 – Joseph Barbera, American animator, director, and producer, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (d. 2006) is born.
1934 – United States Congress passes the Tydings–McDuffie Act, allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth.
1940 – Bob Mackie, American fashion designer is born.
1951 – Tommy Hilfiger, American fashion designer, founded the Tommy Hilfiger Corporation is born.
1958 – Rock 'n' roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted in the U.S. Army.
1965 – NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic television, brings images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash landing.
1976 – Peyton Manning, future Hall of Fame football quarterback, Indianapolis Colts & Denver Broncos, and Superbowl champion is born.
1984 – Chris Bosh, star basketball player is born.
1989 – Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (38,000 m3) of crude oil after running aground.
2000 – S&P 500 index reaches an intraday high of 1,552.87, a peak that, due to the collapse of the dot-com bubble, it will not reach again for another seven-and-a-half years.
2014 – A train overruns the buffers at Chicago O'Hare Airport station, injuring 32 people.
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