1842 – John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine.
1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Valverde is fought near Fort Craig in New Mexico Territory.
1874 – The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first edition.
1878 – The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
1885 – The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
1918 – The last Carolina parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.
1925 – The New Yorker publishes its first issue.
1943 – David Geffen, American businessman, co-founded DreamWorks and Geffen Records is born.
1945 – World War II: Japanese kamikaze planes sink the escort carrier USS Bismarck Sea and damage the USS Saratoga.
1947 – In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
1948 – NASCAR is incorporated.
1965 – Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City.
1972 – United States President Richard Nixon visits the People's Republic of China to normalize Sino-American relations.
1975 – Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.
1995 – Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
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