1569 – First recorded lottery in England.
1759 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated.
1805 – The Michigan Territory is created.
1807 – Ezra Cornell, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Western Union and Cornell University (d. 1874) is born.
1836 – John Molson, Canadian businessman, founded the Molson Brewing Company (b. 1763) dies.
1843 – Francis Scott Key, American lawyer, author, and songwriter (b. 1779) dies.
1861 – Alabama secedes from the United States.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Arkansas Post: General John McClernand and Admiral David Dixon Porter capture the Arkansas River for the Union.
1863 – American Civil War: CSS Alabama encounters and sinks the USS Hatteras off Galveston Lighthouse in Texas.
1906 – Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist and academic, discoverer of LSD (d. 2008) is born.
1908 – Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
1912 – Immigrant textile works in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
1922 – First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
1925 – Grant Tinker, American television producer, co-founded MTM Enterprises (d. 2016) is born.
1927 – Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.
1935 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
1943 – Italian-American anarchist Carlo Tresca is assassinated in New York City.
1949 – The first "networked" television broadcasts took place as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania goes on the air connecting the east coast and mid-west programming.
1964 – Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Luther Terry, M.D., publishes the landmark report Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States saying that smoking may be hazardous to health, sparking national and worldwide anti-smoking efforts.
1971 – Mary J. Blige, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress is born.
1973 – Major League Baseball owners vote in approval of the American League adopting the designated hitter position.
1996 – Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of Endeavour.
2000 – Ivan Combe, American businessman, invented Clearasil (b. 1911) dies.
2003 – Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois's death row based on the Jon Burge scandal.
2013 – Tom Parry Jones, Welsh chemist, invented the breathalyzer (b. 1935) dies.
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