1498 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela.
1831 – A new London Bridge opens.
1842 – The Lombard Street riot erupts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
1876 – Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
1903 – Calamity Jane, American frontierswoman and scout (b. 1853) dies.
1911 – Harriet Quimby takes her pilot's test and becomes the first U.S. woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator's certificate.
1936 – Yves Saint Laurent, Algerian-French fashion designer, co-founded Yves Saint Laurent (d. 2008) is born.
1948 – Avi Arad, Israeli-American screenwriter and producer, founded Marvel Studios is born.
1957 – The United States and Canada form the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).
1961 – U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara orders the creation of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the nation's first centralized military espionage organization.
1966 – Charles Whitman kills 16 people at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.
1981 – Paddy Chayefsky, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1923) dies.
1981 – MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles.
1989 – Tiffany, American-South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (Girls' Generation and Girls' Generation-TTS) is born.
1993 – The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 comes to a peak.
2001 – Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a Ten Commandments monument installed in the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office.
2007 – The I-35W Mississippi River bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour.
2014 – Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence enters into force.
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