1858 – Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin's own, prompting Darwin to publish his theory.
1873 – Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
1908 – The University of the Philippines is established.
1923 – Checker Taxi puts its first taxi on the streets.
1928 – Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
1936 – Barack Obama, Sr., Kenyan economist (d. 1982) is born.
1942 – Roger Ebert, American journalist, critic, and screenwriter (d. 2013) is born.
1942 – Paul McCartney, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Beatles, The Quarrymen, Wings, and The Fireman) is born.
1948 – Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, New York.
1971 – President Richard Nixon declares that illegal drugs are "public enemy number one", which becomes popularized as the "War on Drugs".
1982 – Italian banker Roberto Calvi's body is discovered hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London, England.
1983 – Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
2002 – Jack Buck, American sportscaster (b. 1924) dies.
2007 – The Charleston Sofa Super Store fire happened in Charleston, South Carolina killing nine firefighters.
2015 – Ralph J. Roberts, American businessman, co-founded Comcast (b. 1920) dies.
2015 – Danny Villanueva, American football player and broadcaster, co-founded Univision (b. 1937) dies.
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