1539 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his army enter the Apalachee capital of Anhaica (present-day Tallahassee, Florida) by force.
1723 – Benjamin Franklin arrives in Philadelphia at the age of 17.
1744 – James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded McGill University (d. 1813) is born.
1866 – Reginald Fessenden, Canadian engineer and academic, invented radiotelephony (d. 1932) is born.
1876 – The American Library Association was founded.
1884 – The Naval War College of the United States Navy is founded in Newport, Rhode Island.
1889 – American inventor Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
1898 – Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the largest American music fraternity, is founded at the New England Conservatory of Music by Ossian Everett Mills.
1927 – Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie.
1941 – Paul Popham, American soldier and activist, co-founded Gay Men's Health Crisis (b. 1987) is born.
1951 – Will Keith Kellogg, American businessman, founded the Kellogg Company (b. 1860) dies.
1979 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
1981 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is murdered by Islamic extremists.
1989 – Bette Davis, American actress and singer (b. 1908) dies.
2007 – Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.
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