- 1587- 1st English child born in the New World (Virginia Dare).
- 1838- 1st US marine expedition.
- 1868 – French astronomer Pierre Jules César Janssen discovered helium.
- 1917 Casper Weinberger US Secretary of Defense (1981-87) was born.
- 1920-When Tennessee ratified the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, the three-quarters of the states necessary was achieved and American women got the right to vote.
- 1934-Roberto Clemente pro baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).
- 1961 Construction on Berlin Wall completed.
- 1963 – American civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
- 1965 – Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins – United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.
- 1987-Philip Rush of NZ, set record for triple crossing English Channel. His time 28:21, 10 hours faster than the 1st man to do it.
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