1821 – The United States takes possession of its newly bought territory of Florida from Spain.
1839 – Adolphus Busch, German brewer, co-founded Anheuser-Busch (d. 1913) is born.
1850 – U.S. President Millard Fillmore is sworn in, a day after becoming President upon Zachary Taylor's death.
1890 – Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
1913 – The temperature in Death Valley, California, hits 134 °F (57 °C), the highest temperature ever to be recorded on Earth.
1914 – Joe Shuster, Canadian-American illustrator, co-created Superman (d. 1992) is born.
1921 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver, American activist, co-founded the Special Olympics (d. 2009) is born.
1925 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
1938 – Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91-hour airplane flight around the world.
1943 – Arthur Ashe, American tennis player and journalist (d. 1993) is born.
1962 – Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
1966 – The Chicago Freedom Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. As many as 60,000 people come to hear Dr. King as well as Mahalia Jackson, Stevie Wonder, and Peter Paul and Mary.
1973 – John Paul Getty III, a grandson of the oil magnate J. Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy.
1978 – ABC World News Tonight premieres on ABC.
1980 – Jessica Simpson, American singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer is born.
1989 – Mel Blanc, American voice actor and singer (b. 1908) dies.
1991 – Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected President of Russia.
1992 – In Miami, the former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
2002 – At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson.
2015 – Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor and screenwriter (b. 1932)
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