1609 – Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the Hudson River while aboard the Halve Maen.
1848 – Switzerland becomes a Federal state.
1940 – Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France.
1952 – Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia.
1953 – U.S. Senator and future President John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island.
1959 – Premiere of Bonanza, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in color.
1962 – President John F. Kennedy, at a speech at Rice University, reaffirms that the U.S. will put a man on the moon by the end of the decade.
1964 – Canyonlands National Park is designated as a National Park.
1977 – South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko dies in police custody.
1984 – Dwight Gooden sets the baseball record for strikeouts in a season by a rookie with 246, previously set by Herb Score in 1954. Gooden's 276 strikeouts that season, pitched in 218 innings, set the current record.
1994 – Frank Eugene Corder crashes a single-engine Cessna 150 into the White House's south lawn, striking the West wing. The incident claimed Corder's life.
2003 – Johnny Cash, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1932) dies.
2003 – The United Nations lifts sanctions against Libya after that country agreed to accept responsibility and recompense the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
2011 – The 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York City opens to the public.
2013 – Ray Dolby, American engineer and businessman, founded Dolby Laboratories (b. 1933) dies.
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