1877 – The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants convicted of murder, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons.
1898 – The United States captures Guam from Spain.
1900 – Boxer Rebellion. China formally declares war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Empress Dowager Cixi.
1915 – The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens.
1921 – Judy Holliday, American actress and singer (d. 1965) is born.
1954 – Gideon Sundback, Swedish-American engineer, developed the zipper (b. 1880) dies.
1964 – Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
1970 – Penn Central declares Section 77 bankruptcy, largest ever US corporate bankruptcy up to this date.
1973 – In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller test for obscenity in U.S. law.
1979 – Chris Pratt, American actor is born.
1998 – Al Campanis, American baseball player and manager (b. 1916) dies.
2001 – Carroll O'Connor, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1924) dies.
2004 – SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
2007 – Bob Evans, American businessman, founded Bob Evans Restaurants (b. 1918) dies.
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