1788 – South Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution as the eighth American state.
1883 – Douglas Fairbanks, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1939) is born.
1911 – The New York Public Library is dedicated.
1915 – S. Donald Stookey, American physicist and chemist, invented CorningWare (d. 2014) is born.
1928 – Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress (d. 2002) is born.
1934 – The American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
1937 – John D. Rockefeller, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Standard Oil Company and Rockefeller University (b. 1839) dies.
1939 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Squalus sinks off the coast of New Hampshire during a test dive, causing the death of 24 sailors and two civilian technicians. The remaining 32 sailors and one civilian naval architect are rescued the following day.
1954 – Marvelous Marvin Hagler, American boxer and actor is born.
1995 – The first version of the Java programming language is released.
2002 – Sam Snead, American golfer and journalist (b. 1912) dies.
2004 – Part of Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport's Terminal 2E collapses, killing four people and injuring three others.
2010 – Jamaican police begin a manhunt for drug lord Christopher Coke, after the United States requested his extradition, leading to three days of violence during which at least 73 gunmen, policemen and bystanders are killed.
2012 – Adam Lambert became the first openly gay artist to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200 Album Charts, with his album Trespassing.
2013 – The Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River collapses in Mount Vernon, Washington.
2014 – Seven people, including the perpetrator, are killed and another 14 injured in a killing spree near the campus of University of California, Santa Barbara.
2015 – At least 46 people are killed as a result of floods caused by a tornado in Texas and Oklahoma.
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