1609 – Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
1875 – Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 22 hours.
1894 – Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
1916 – The United States National Park Service is created.
1919 – George Wallace, American sergeant, lawyer, and politician, 45th Governor of Alabama (d. 1998) is born.
1930 – Sean Connery, Scottish actor and producer is born.
1931 – Regis Philbin, American actor and television host is born.
1945 – Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Chinese Communist Party kill U.S. intelligence officer John Birch, regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War.
1949 – Gene Simmons, Israeli-American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor, (Kiss and Wicked Lester) is born.
1950 – President Harry Truman orders the U.S. Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike.
1954 – Elvis Costello, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The New Basement Tapes) is born.
1958 – Tim Burton, American director, producer, and screenwriter is born.
1961 – Billy Ray Cyrus, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor is born.
1987 – Blake Lively, American model and actress is born.
1988 – Art Rooney, American businessman, founded the Pittsburgh Steelers (b. 1901) dies.
1989 – Voyager 2 spacecraft makes its closest approach to Neptune, the second to last planet in the Solar System at the time.
2009 – Ted Kennedy, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (b. 1932) dies.
2012 – Neil Armstrong, American pilot, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1930) dies.
2012 – Voyager 1 spacecraft enters interstellar space becoming the first man-made object to do so.
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