Thurgood Marshall 1908 - U.S. Supreme Court Justice
- 1776 - Richard Henry Lee’s resolution that the American colonies "are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States" was adopted by the Continental Congress.
- 1881 - Charles J. Guiteau fatally wounded U.S. President James A. Garfield in Washington, DC.
- 1926 - The U.S. Congress established the Army Air Corps.
- 1937 - American aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart disappeared in the Central Pacific during an attempt to fly around the world at the equator.
- 1947 - An object crashed near Roswell, NM. The U.S. Army Air Force insisted it was a weather balloon, but eyewitness accounts led to speculation that it might have been an alien spacecraft.
- 1962 - Wal-Mart Discount City opened in Rogers, Arkansas. It was the first Walmart store.
- 1964 - U.S. President Johnson signed the "Civil Rights Act of 1964" into law. The act made it illegal in the U.S. to discriminate against others because of their race.
- 1998 - Cable News Network (CNN) retracted a story that alleged that U.S. commandos had used nerve gas to kill American defectors during the Vietnam War.
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