1835 – Great Fire of New York: Fire levels lower Manhattan.
1862 – American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from parts of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.
1892 – First issue of Vogue is published
1896 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Schenley Park Casino, which was the first multi-purpose arena with the technology to create an artificial ice surface in North America, is destroyed in a fire.
1903 – The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
1913 – Burt Baskin, American businessman, co-founded Baskin-Robbins (d. 1967) is born.
1920 – Kenneth E. Iverson, Canadian computer scientist, developed the APL programming language (d. 2004) is born.
1930 – Bob Guccione, American photographer and publisher, founded Penthouse (d. 2010) is born.
1937 – Kerry Packer, Australian businessman, founded World Series Cricket (d. 2005) is born.
1951 – The American Civil Rights Congress delivers "We Charge Genocide" to the United Nations.
1957 – The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1981 – American Brigadier General James L. Dozier is abducted by the Red Brigades in Verona, Italy.
2014 – The United States and Cuba re-establish diplomatic relations after severing them 55 years ago.
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