1880 – Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.
1885 – Bess Truman, American wife of Harry S. Truman, 35th First Lady of the United States (d. 1982) is born.
1914 – Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
1919 – Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer and actor (d. 1991) is born.
1920 – The Negro National League is formed.
1923 – Chuck Yeager, American general and pilot; first test pilot to break the sound barrier on Bell-X1 (in 1947) is born.
1947 – Mike Krzyzewski, American basketball player and coach, Duke Blue Devils, is born.
1954 – Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game.
1960 – Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
1961 – An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.
1967 – Yoshisuke Aikawa, entrepreneur, businessman, and politician, founded Nissan Motor Company (b. 1880) dies.
1979 – An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
1981 – A series of sewer explosions destroys more than two miles of streets in Louisville, Kentucky.
2004 – The Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. Astronomers named this star "Lucy" after The Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".
2011 – For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, are able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855.
2016 – Antonin Scalia, American lawyer and judge (b. 1936)
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