Robert Fulton 1765- Engineer and inventor (steamboat), Claude Monet 1840- French impressionist , painter, Aaron Copland 1900- Composer, writer
Joseph McCarthy 1909- Politician (U.S. Senator from Wisconsin), Fred Haise 1933- Engineer, former NASA astronaut, P.J. O'Rourke 1947- Political satirist, journalist, writer
1851 - Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick" was first published in the U.S.
1935 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed the Philippine Islands a free commonwealth after its new constitution was approved. The Tydings-McDuffie Act planned for the Phillipines to be completely independent by July 4, 1946.
1940 - During World War II, German war planes destroyed most of the English town of Coventry when about 500 Luftwaffe bombers attacked.
1956 - The USSR crushed the Hungarian uprising.
1972 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above the 1,000 (1,003.16) level for the first time.
1972 - Blue Ribbon Sports became Nike.
1983 - The British government announced that U.S.-made cruise missiles had arrived at the Greenham Common air base amid protests.
1994 - U.S. experts visited North Korea's main nuclear complex for the first time under an accord that opened such sites to outside inspections.
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