1397 – Geoffrey Chaucer tells The Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II. Chaucer scholars have also identified this date (in 1387) as the start of the book's pilgrimage to Canterbury.
1790 – Benjamin Franklin, American inventor, publisher, and politician, 6th President of Pennsylvania (b. 1706) dies.
1820 – Alexander Cartwright, American firefighter, invented Baseball (d. 1892) is born.
1837 – J. P. Morgan, American banker and financier, founded J.P. Morgan & Co. (d. 1913) is born.
1861 – The state of Virginia's secession convention votes to secede from the United States, becoming the 8th state to join the Confederate States of America.
1882 – George Jennings, English engineer and plumber, invented the Flush toilet (b. 1810) dies.
1897 – The Aurora, Texas, UFO incident
1905 – The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York, which holds that the "right to free contract" is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1907 – The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than on any other day.
1935 – Bud Paxson, American broadcaster, founded Home Shopping Network and Pax TV (d. 2015) is born.
1937 – Daffy Duck's first appearance, in Porky's Duck Hunt.
1964 – Jerrie Mock becomes the first woman to circumnavigate the world by air.
1964 – Ford Mustang is introduced to the North American market.
1969 – Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.
1970 – Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.
1972 – Ruffian, American race horse (d. 1975) is born.
1974 – Victoria Beckham, English singer, actress, and fashion designer (Spice Girls) is born.
1998 – Linda McCartney, American singer, photographer, and activist (b. 1941) dies.
2003 – John Paul Getty, Jr., American-English philanthropist (b. 1932) dies.
2003 – Robert Atkins, American physician and cardiologist, created the Atkins diet (b. 1930) dies.
2013 – An explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, kills 15 people and injures 160 others.
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