1829 – In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter.
1885 – Ulysses S. Grant, American general and politician, 18th President of the United States (b. 1822) dies.
1903 – The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
1925 – Gloria DeHaven, American actress and singer is born.
1926 – Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
1927 – The first station of the Indian Broadcasting Company goes on the air in Bombay.
1961 – Woody Harrelson, American actor, activist, and playwright is born.
1962 – Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
1966 – Montgomery Clift, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1920) dies.
1967 – 12th Street Riot: In Detroit, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city. It ultimately kills 43 people, injures 342 and burns about 1,400 buildings.
1982 – The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling by 1985-86.
1984 – Vanessa Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown after nude photos of her appeared in Penthouse magazine.
1986 – In London, England, Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey.
1989 – Daniel Radcliffe, English actor is born.
1992 – A Vatican commission, led by Joseph Ratzinger, establishes that limiting certain rights of homosexual people and non-married couples is not equivalent to discrimination on grounds of race or gender.
1995 – Comet Hale–Bopp is discovered; it becomes visible to the naked eye on Earth nearly a year later.
1997 – Digital Equipment Corporation files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel.
2011 – Amy Winehouse, English singer-songwriter (b. 1983) dies.
2012 – Sally Ride, American physicist and astronaut (b. 1951) dies.
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