1609 – Shakespeare's sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.
1768 – Dolley Madison, American wife of James Madison, 4th First Lady of the United States (d. 1849) is born.
1862 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law.
1873 – Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
1891 – History of Cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.
1899 – The first traffic ticket in the US: New York City taxi driver Jacob German was arrested for speeding while driving 12 miles per hour on Lexington Street.
1913 – William Redington Hewlett, American engineer, co-founded Hewlett-Packard (d. 2001) is born.
1916 – The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting (Boy with Baby Carriage).
1920 – Montreal radio station XWA broadcasts the first regularly scheduled radio programming in North America.
1940 – Sadaharu Oh, Japanese-Taiwanese baseball player and manager is born.
1946 – Cher, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress (Sonny & Cher) is born.
1949 – In the United States, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency, is established.
1967 – Ramzi Yousef, Kuwaiti-Pakistani terrorist, conducted the 1993 World Trade Center bombing is born.
1971 – Tony Stewart, American race car driver is born.
1983 – First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier.
1996 – Civil rights: The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of gays and lesbians.
2012 – Eugene Polley, American engineer, invented the remote control (b. 1915) dies.
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