• 1781 – Los Angeles, California, was founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula (the City of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of the Little Portion) by a group of 44 Spanish settlers
• 1847 – Anglican clergyman Henry Francis Lyte, 54, suffering from asthma and consumption, penned the words to his hymn, “Abide With Me,” before preaching his last sermon in Devonshire, England.
• 1867 – Sheffield Wednesday F.C. was founded at the Adelphi Hotel in Sheffield
• 1888 – George Eastman registered the trademark Kodak, and received a patent for his camera which uses roll film
• 1951 – The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, California, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference
• 1972 – Mark Spitz won his seventh swimming gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, becoming the first Olympian to win seven gold medals. Spitz swam in only seven events and set world records in each one
• 1972 – Israeli Athletes were taken hostage by Palestinian Black September (group) at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich massacre
• 1988 – Mike Tyson crashed a silver BMW into a tree near Catskills NY
• 1995 – The Fourth World Conference on Women opened in Beijing with over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance

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