1551 – National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the Americas, is founded in Lima, Peru.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: In the largest defeat of the Continental Army, Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces.
1918 – Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman, founded Mary Kay Cosmetics (d. 2001) is born.
1925 – Yogi Berra, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2015) is born.
1928 – Burt Bacharach, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer is born.
1932 – Ten weeks after his abduction, the infant son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Jr., is found dead in Hopewell, New Jersey, just a few miles from the Lindberghs' home.
1935 – Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith (founders of Alcoholics Anonymous) meet for the first time in Akron, Ohio, at the home of Henrietta Siberling.
1958 – A formal North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement is signed between the United States and Canada.
1962 – Emilio Estevez, American actor, director, and screenwriter is born.
1968 – Tony Hawk, American skateboarder and actor is born.
1986 – NBC debuts the current well-known peacock as seen in the NBC 60th Anniversary Celebration.
1989 – The San Bernardino train disaster kills four people. A week later an underground gasoline pipeline explodes killing two more people.
2000 – Adam Petty, American race car driver (b. 1980) dies.
2002 – Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming the first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.
2001 – Perry Como, American singer and television host (b. 1912) dies.
2008 – An earthquake (measuring around 8.0 magnitude) occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 69,000 people.
2008 – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducts the largest-ever raid of a workplace in Postville, Iowa, arresting nearly 400 immigrants for identity theft and document fraud.
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