1874 – The first horse-drawn bus makes its début in the city of Mumbai, traveling two routes.
1887 – Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
1904 – The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 mph (160 km/h).
1926 – Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.)
1949 – Billy Joel, American singer-songwriter and pianist is born.
1958 – Film: Vertigo has world premiere in San Francisco.
1960 – Tony Gwynn, American baseball player and coach (d. 2014) is born.
1960 – The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill.
1968 – Harold Gray, American cartoonist, created Little Orphan Annie (b. 1894) dies.
1970 – Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 75,000 to 100,000 war protesters demonstrate in front of the White House.
1974 – Watergate scandal: The United States House Committee on the Judiciary opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
1980 – In Norco, California, five masked gunmen hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. Two of the gunmen and one police officer are killed and thirty-three police and civilian vehicles are destroyed in the chase.
2001 – In Ghana, 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium disaster. The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of teargas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee.
2012 – Vidal Sassoon, English-American hairdresser and businessman (b. 1928) dies.
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