1829 – Geronimo, American tribal leader (d. 1909) is born.
1858 – Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.
1884 – The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
1897 – A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
1903 – The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
1904 – Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".
1911 – IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
1911 – A 772 gram stony meteorite strikes the earth near Kilbourn, Wisconsin damaging a barn.
1930 – Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American inventor, co-invented the gyrocompass (b. 1860) dies.
1930 – Ezra Fitch, American lawyer and businessman, co-founded Abercrombie & Fitch (b. 1866) dies.
1944 – At age 14, George Junius Stinney, Jr. becomes the youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th century.
1951 – Roberto Durán, Panamanian boxer is born.
1961 – Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.
1963 – Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 Mission: Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
1966 – Phil Vischer, American voice actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, co-created VeggieTales is born.
1970 – Phil Mickelson, American golfer is born.
1970 – Brian Piccolo, Chicago Bears football player (b. 1943) dies.
1971 – John Reith, 1st Baron Reith, Scottish broadcaster, co-founded BBC (b. 1889) dies.
1971 – Tupac Shakur, American rapper, producer, and actor (Digital Underground, Outlawz, and Thug Life) (d. 1996) is born.
1977 – Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates.
1981 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan awards the Congressional Gold Medal to Ken Taylor, Canada's former ambassador to Iran, for helping six Americans escape from Iran during the hostage crisis of 1979-81; he is the first foreign citizen bestowed the honor.
2000 – Israel complies with United Nations Security Council Resolution 425 22 years after its issuance, which calls on Israel to completely withdraw from Lebanon. Israel does so, except the disputed Shebaa farms.
2012 – The United States Air Force's robotic Boeing X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after a classified 469-day orbital mission.
2014 – Tony Gwynn, American baseball player and coach (b. 1960) dies.
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