70: A Roman army under General Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem.1191: During the Third Crusade, at the Battle of Arsuf, Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Arsuf.
1533: Queen Elizabeth I of England is born.
1776: The American submersible craft Turtle attempts to attach a time bomb to the hull of British Admiral Richard Howe's flagship HMS Eagle in New York Harbor. It is the world's first submarine attack.
1822: Brazil declares its independence from Portugal.1860: The Steamship Lady Elgin sinks on Lake Michigan, with the loss of around 400 lives.
1860: Grandma Moses is born.
1864: Atlanta, Georgia, is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.1876: In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang attempt to rob the town's bank but are surrounded by an angry mob and are nearly killed.
1901: The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.
1909: Elia Kazan is born.
1909: Eugene Lefebvre, while test piloting a new French-built Wright biplane, crashes at Juvisy France when his controls jam. Lefebvre dies, becoming the first pilot in the world to lose his life in a powered-heavier-than-air-craft.
1911: French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
1912: David Packard, co-founder of Hewlett Packard is born.
1915: Former cartoonist Johnny Gruelle is given a patent for his Raggedy Ann doll.1921: In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant is held.
1923: Peter Lawford, second string member of the Rat Pack is born.
1927: The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Taylor Farnsworth.1936: The last surviving member of the thylacine species dies at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
1936: Buddy Holly is born.1937: John Phillip Law is born. He's most famous for playing the Angel in Barbarella, but he's been in far, far worse movies than that.
1940: The Blitz begins as Nazi Germany begins to rain bombs on London. This will be the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing.1942: First flight of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator. It was developed as a fallback design to the B-29 Superfortess and didn't get delivered to the Pacific Theater until summer of 1945 - too late to be of any use.
1943: The German 17th Army begins its evacuation of the Kuban River (Taman Peninsula) bridgehead in southern Russia and moves across the Strait of Kerch to the Crimea. The move signals the beginning of full retreat of German forces along the Eastern Front.1945: Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December of 1941, surrender to U.S. Marines.
1949: Gloria Gaynor is born. She did the song "I Will Survive."
1950: Julie Kavner is born. She provides the voice of Marge Simpson.
1951: Chrissie Hynde, guitarist and singer for The Pretenders, is born.1953: Nikita Khrushchev becomes head of the Soviet Central Committee.
1954: Corbin Bernsen is born.1973: Shannon Elizabeth from American Pie is born.
1978: While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Giullino by means of a ricin pellet fired from in a specially-designed umbrella.1979: The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) makes its debut.
1979: The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for USD $1 billion to avoid bankruptcy.
1997: The first test flight of the F-22 Raptor takes place.
1998: Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford UniversityToday in History elements mostly cribbed from The History Channel, Wikipedia, The New York Times, The Jewish World Review, The Writer's Almanac and anything else I can dig up.
