1774 – Massachusetts Bay colonists rise up in the bloodless Powder Alarm.
1875 – Edgar Rice Burroughs, American soldier and author (d. 1950) is born.
1878 – Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.
1894 – Over 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.
1906 – The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys is established.
1907 – Walter Reuther, American union leader, founded United Auto Workers (d. 1970) is born.
1910 – In Brazil, Sport Club Corinthians Paulista, the first FIFA World Club Champion, is founded.
1914 – The last known passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
1920 – The Fountain of Time opens as a tribute to the 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent.
1939 – General George C. Marshall becomes Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
1951 – The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.
1952 – The Old Man and the Sea, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Ernest Hemingway, is first published.
1969 – A coup in Libya brings Muammar Gaddafi to power.
1970 – Attempted assassination of King Hussein of Jordan by Palestinian guerrillas, who attack his motorcade.
1979 – The American space probe Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 kilometres (13,000 mi).
1982 – The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.
1985 – A joint American–French expedition locates the wreckage of the RMS Titanic.
1989 – A. Bartlett Giamatti, American businessman and academic (b. 1938) dies.
2014 – Joseph Shivers, American chemist and academic, developed spandex (b. 1920) dies.
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