1644: Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship, and written by John Milton is published.1804: Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States, is born.
1859: Billy the Kid is born.
1869: In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched - one of the last clippers ever to be built, and the only one still surviving to this day. It recently suffered a massive fire because the security guards were forging their log books and left a shop vac running for 48 hours. Nice job, guys.
1876: Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Marcy Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain.
1887: Boris Karloff is born.
1888: Harpo Marx is born.1889: The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
1912: George O'Hanlon is born. He provided the voice of George Jetson.
1914: Michael Gough is born. He was in a ton of the trashy Hammer horror films and played Alfred the butler in all four of the original Batman movies.
1936: The first edition of Life is published.1944: Joe Eszterhas is born. His trashy movies (like Showgirls and Basic Instinct) make Joe D'Amato (Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals and Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade) look like John Ford.
1951: David Rappaport is born. He was the Billy Barty of the modern age.
1954: For the first time, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the peak it reached just before the 1929 crash.1963: One of the greatest shows ever, Doctor Who is first broadcast.
1979: In Dublin, Ireland, Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten.
Today 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.
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