1550 – The city of Helsinki, Finland (belonging to Sweden at the time) is founded by King Gustav I of Sweden.
1776 – The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
1806 – John A. Roebling, German-American engineer, designed the Brooklyn Bridge (d. 1869) is born.
1899 – New Richmond tornado: The eighth deadliest tornado in U.S. history kills 117 people and injures around 200.
1924 – George H. W. Bush, American lieutenant and politician, 41st President of the United States is born.
1939 – Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures' Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.
1939 – The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
1942 – Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
1957 – Jimmy Dorsey, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (The Dorsey Brothers and The California Ramblers) (b. 1904) dies.
1963 – Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith.
1967 – The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
1985 – Blake Ross, American computer programmer, co-created Mozilla Firefox is born.
1994 – Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside her home in Los Angeles, California. O.J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in wrongful death civil suit.
1994 – The Boeing 777, the world's largest twinjet, makes its first flight.
1997 – Queen Elizabeth II reopens the Globe Theatre in London.
2002 – Bill Blass, American fashion designer, founded Bill Blass Limited (b. 1922) dies.
2003 – Gregory Peck, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1916) dies.
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