1620 – Pilgrims set sail from England on the Mayflower.
1736 – Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Polish-Dutch physicist and engineer, invented the thermometer (b. 1686) dies.
1875 – James Cash Penney, American businessman and philanthropist, founded J. C. Penney (d. 1971) is born.
1880 – The Cornell Daily Sun prints its first issue in Ithaca, New York. The Sun is the nation's oldest, continuously-independent college daily.
1888 – W. O. Bentley, English race car driver and engineer, founded Bentley Motors Limited (d. 1971) is born.
1898 – H. A. Rey, American author and illustrator, co-created Curious George (d. 1977) is born.
1908 – The General Motors Corporation is founded.
1919 – The American Legion is incorporated.
1920 – The Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City killing 38 and injuring 400.
1925 – B.B. King, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2015) is born.
1959 – The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.
1966 – The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra.
1976 – Armenian champion swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a Yerevan reservoir.
1984 – Louis Réard, French engineer and fashion designer, created the bikini (b. 1897) dies.
1987 – The Montreal Protocol is signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion.
2012 – Roman Kroitor, Canadian director and producer, co-founded IMAX (b. 1926) dies.
2013 – A gunman kills twelve people at the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C.
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