1858 – Carl Richard Nyberg, Swedish inventor and businessman, developed the blow torch (d. 1939) is born.
1937 – The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, D.C., who pushes a button signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the span.
1937 – Volkswagen (VW), the German automobile manufacturer is founded.
1944 – Gladys Knight, American singer-songwriter and actress (Gladys Knight & the Pips) is born.
1951 – The British radio comedy program The Goon Show is broadcast on the BBC for the first time.
1964 – The Palestine Liberation Organization is formed.
1977 – In Southgate, Kentucky, the Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 people inside.
1996 – U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, Jim McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
1998 – Phil Hartman, Canadian-American actor, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1948) dies.
2002 – The last steel girder is removed from the original World Trade Center site. Cleanup duties officially end with closing ceremonies at Ground Zero in Manhattan, New York City.
2010 – Gary Coleman, American actor (b. 1968) dies.
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