1810 – Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, French inventor, co-invented the hot air balloon (b. 1740) dies.
1870 – The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
1906 – The first Grand Prix motor racing event held.
1911 – Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American golfer and basketball player (d. 1956) is born.
1927 – The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
1934 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
1945 – The United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.
1948 – William Shockley files the original patent for the grown-junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor.
1959 – Swedish boxer Ingemar Johansson becomes world champion of heavy weight boxing, by defeating American Floyd Patterson on technical knockout after two minutes and three seconds in the third round at Yankee Stadium.
1974 – The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio
1975 – Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
1977 – Elvis Presley performs the final concert of his life in Indianapolis.
1993 – Roy Campanella, American baseball player and coach (b. 1921) dies.
2003 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.
2003 – Strom Thurmond, American general, lawyer, and politician, 103rd Governor of South Carolina (b. 1902) dies.
2007 – Liz Claiborne, Belgian-American fashion designer, founded Liz Claiborne (b. 1929) dies.
2012 – The Waldo Canyon fire descends into the Mountain Shadows neighborhood in Colorado Springs burning 347 homes in a matter of hours and killing two people.
2015 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5–4, that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marriage under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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