1839 – Isaac K. Funk, American minister and publisher, co-founded Funk & Wagnalls (d. 1912) is born.
1842 – Letitia Christian Tyler, American wife of John Tyler, 11th First Lady of the United States (b. 1790) dies.
1846 – Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.
1858 – George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
1932 – The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.
1934 – Roger Maris, American baseball player and coach (d. 1985) is born.
1936 – First World Individual Motorcycle Speedway Championship, Held at London's (England) Wembley Stadium
1941 – Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese video game designer, invented Game Boy (d. 1997) is born.
1955 – The television series Gunsmoke premieres on CBS. It was the second western television series written for adults. The first was the Lone Ranger.
1960 – At the Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.
1972 – The United States suffers its first loss of an international basketball game in a disputed match against the Soviet Union at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany.
1987 – Pope John Paul II starts his 11-day papal visit to Fort Simpson, Canada and afterwards to several southern and western cities in the United States.
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