1861 – The Toronto Stock Exchange is created.
1864 – John Francis Dodge, American businessman, co-founded the Dodge Company (d. 1920) is born.
1881 – Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 1973) is born.
1920 – After 74 days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney dies.
1940 – Bob Knight, American college basketball player and coach is born.
1940 – Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.
1944 – The USS Tang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine captain of World War II) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo.
1965 – Eduard Einstein, Swiss son of Albert Einstein (b. 1910) dies.
1971 – Pedro Martínez, Dominican-American Hall of Fame baseball player and sportscaster is born.
1983 – Operation Urgent Fury: The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a coup d'état.
1995 – A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students.
1999 – Payne Stewart, American golfer (b. 1957) dies.
2015 – Flip Saunders, American basketball player and coach (b. 1955) dies.
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