1770 – Captain James Cook, still holding the rank of lieutenant, sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.
1782 – John Adams secures the Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague, Netherlands becomes the first American embassy.
1824 – Lord Byron, English-Scottish poet and playwright (b. 1788) dies.
1861 – American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861: A pro-Secession mob in Baltimore, attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.
1877 – Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American engineer, invented the outboard motor (d. 1934) is born.
1901 – Alfred Horatio Belo, American publisher, founded The Dallas Morning News (b. 1839) dies.
1927 – Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
1928 – The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
1933 – Jayne Mansfield, American model and actress (d. 1967) is born.
1951 – General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military.
1965 – Suge Knight, American record producer, co-founded Death Row Records is born.
1969 – Jesse James, American motorcycle builder, founded West Coast Choppers is born.
1971 – Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans Against the War begin "Operation Dewey Canyon III", a five-day demonstration in Washington, D.C.
1971 – Charles Manson is sentenced to death (later commuted life imprisonment) for conspiracy to commit the Tate–LaBianca murders.
1979 – Kate Hudson, American actress is born.
1985 – Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the neo-Nazi survivalist group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas. The CSA surrenders two days later.
1987 – The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show.
1989 – A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa, killing 47 sailors.
1993 – The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die.
1993 – South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashes in Iowa.
1995 – Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, USA, is bombed, killing 168.
1997 – The 1997 Red River Flood overwhelms the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota. Fire breaks out and spreads in downtown Grand Forks, but high water levels hamper efforts to reach the fire, leading to the destruction of 11 buildings.
2004 – Norris McWhirter, English author and activist co-founded the Guinness World Records (b. 1925) dies.
2011 – Fidel Castro resigns from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba after 45 years of holding the title.
2013 – Boston Marathon bombings suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is captured while hiding in a boat inside a backyard in Watertown, Massachusetts.
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