1765 – Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor, invented photography (d. 1833) is born.
1841 – William Rockhill Nelson, American businessman and publisher, founded The Kansas City Star (d. 1915) is born.
1850 – Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Austrian-Czech sociologist and politician, 1st President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1937) is born.
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".
1952 – Lynn Swann, Pittsburgh Steelers football player, sportscaster, and politician is born
1965 – Bloody Sunday: a group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.
1985 – The song "We Are the World" receives its international release.
1986 – Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.
1990 – Abigail and Brittany Hensel, American conjoined twins is born.
1991 – James "Cool Papa" Bell, American baseball player (b. 1903) dies
1999 – Stanley Kubrick, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928) dies.
2009 – The Kepler space observatory, designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, is launched.
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