1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Royal Navy defeats the Penobscot Expedition with the most significant loss of United States naval forces prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
1826 – René Laennec, French physician, invented the stethoscope (b. 1781) dies.
1888 – John Logie Baird, Scottish engineer, invented the television (d. 1946) is born.
1898 – Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.
1899 – Alfred Hitchcock, English-American director and producer (d. 1980) is born.
1906 – The all black infantrymen of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Regiment are accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence; all are later dishonorably discharged.
1918 – Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha May Johnson is the first woman to enlist.
1942 – Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the "Development of Substitute Materials" project, better known as the Manhattan Project.
1942 – Walt Disney's fifth full-length animated film, Bambi, was released to theaters.
1946 – H. G. Wells, English journalist and author (b. 1866) dies.
1964 – Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans are hanged for the Murder of John Alan West becoming the last people executed in the United Kingdom.
1969 – The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine to enjoy a ticker tape parade in New York City That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Richard Nixon.
1972 – Kevin Plank, American businessman, founded Under Armour is born.
1979 – The roof of the uncompleted Rosemont Horizon in Rosemont, Illinois, collapses, killing five workers and injuring 16.
1995 – Mickey Mantle, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1931) dies.
1997 – The first episode of the American animated series South Park premiered on Comedy Central.
2004 – Julia Child, American chef, author, and television host (b. 1912) dies.
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