- 1666 – Great Fire of London ends: A large fire in London burns out after three days. 10,000 buildings including St. Paul’s Cathedral are destroyed, but only 16 people are known to have died
- 1836 – Sam Houston was elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
- 1857 – Auguste Comte, French sociologist died
- 1960 – Cassius Clay (Muhammed Ali) won the gold medal in boxing at the Rome Olympic Games.
- 1979 – John Carew, Norwegian football player was born
- 1984 – Western Australia became the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment
- 1991 – Actor John Travolta wedded Kelly Preston
- 2000 – Tuvalu joined the United Nations.
- 2002 – A car bomb kills 30 people in Kabul, Afghanistan, in an apparent assassination attempt on Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
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