George H.W. Bush 1924 - 41st President of the United States, father of President George W. Bush
- 1812 - Napoleon's invasion of Russia began.
- 1839 - Abner Doubleday created the game of baseball, according to the legend.
- 1897 - Carl Elsener patented his penknife. The object later became known as the Swiss army knife.
- 1935 - U.S. Senator Huey Long of Louisiana made the longest speech on Senate record. The speech took 15 1/2 hours and was filled by 150,000 words.
- 1963 - "Cleopatra" starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison, and Richard Burton premiered at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City.
- 1963 - Civil rights leader Medgar Evers was fatally shot in front of his home in Jackson, MS.
- 1979 - Bryan Allen flew the Gossamer Albatross, man powered, across the English Channel.
- 1987 - U.S. President Reagan publicly challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
- 1991 - Russians went to the election polls and elected Boris N. Yeltsin as the president of their republic.
- 2009 - In the U.S., The switch from analog TV trasmission to digital was completed.
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