1616 – William Shakespeare, English actor, playwright, and poet (b. 1564) dies.
1635 – The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston.
1791 – James Buchanan, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 15th President of the United States (d. 1868) is born.
1813 – Stephen A. Douglas, American educator and politician, 7th Illinois Secretary of State (d. 1861) is born.
1910 – American President Theodore Roosevelt makes his "The Man in the Arena" speech.
1914 – First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park in Chicago.
1928 – Shirley Temple, American actress, singer, dancer, and diplomat (d. 2014) is born.
1941 – Michael Lynne, American film producer, co-founded New Line Cinema is born.
1943 – Tony Esposito, Canadian-American ice hockey player, Chicago Blackhawks, coach, and manager is born
1951 – American journalist William N. Oatis is arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.
1966 – George Ohsawa, Japanese founder of the Macrobiotic diet (b. 1893) dies.
1968 – Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university.
1977 – John Cena, American wrestler is born.
1985 – Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than three months.
1993 – Cesar Chavez, American activist, co-founded the United Farm Workers (b. 1927) dies.
1995 – Gigi Hadid, American fashion model is born.
1995 – Howard Cosell, American lawyer and journalist (b. 1918) dies.
1998 – James Earl Ray, American assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1928) dies.
2005 – First YouTube video uploaded, titled "Me at the zoo".
2007 – Boris Yeltsin, Russian politician, 1st President of Russia (b. 1931) dies.
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