1854 – Oscar Wilde, Irish author, poet, and playwright (d. 1900) is born.
1875 – Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
1888 – Eugene O'Neill, American playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953) is born.
1909 – William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold a summit, a first between a U.S. and a Mexican president, and they only narrowly escape assassination.
1916 – In Brooklyn, New York, Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
1923 – The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.
1925 – Angela Lansbury, English-American actress, singer, and producer is born.
1926 – Charles Dolan, American businessman, founded Cablevision and HBO
1944 – Wally Walrus, Woody Woodpecker's first steady foil, debuts in the The Beach Nut, a Walter Lantz's cartoon.
1946 – Nuremberg trial executions of the Main Trial: Hans Frank, German lawyer and politician (b. 1900), Wilhelm Frick, German lawyer and politician, German Minister of the Interior (b. 1877), Alfred Jodl, German general (b. 1890), Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian SS officer (b. 1903), Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal (b. 1882), Alfred Rosenberg, Estonian architect and politician (b. 1893), Fritz Sauckel, German sailor and politician (b. 1894), Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian lawyer and politician, 16th Federal Chancellor of Austria (b. 1892), Julius Streicher, German journalist and politician (b. 1887) and Joachim von Ribbentrop, German lieutenant and politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany (b. 1893).
1968 – United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the US team for participating in the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute.
1973 – Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1975 – Rahima Banu, a two-year-old girl from the village of Kuralia in Bangladesh, is the last known person to be infected with naturally occurring smallpox.
1984 – The Bill debuts on ITV, eventually becoming the longest-running police procedural in British television history.
1995 – The Million Man March takes place in Washington, D.C.
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