Jefferson Davis 1808/1808 - American soldier, politician, President of the Confederate states of America during the U.S. Civil War
- 1098 - Christian Crusaders of the First Crusade seized Antioch, Turkey.
- 1805 - A peace treaty between the U.S. and Tripoli was completed in the captain's cabin on board the USS Constitution.
- 1888 - "Casey at the Bat" the poem by Ernest Lawrence Thayer was first published.
- 1937 - The Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated the British throne, married Wallis Warfield Simpson.
- 1965 - Edward White became the first American astronaut to do a "space walk" when he left the Gemini 4 capsule.
- 1989 - Chinese army troops positioned themselves to began a sweep of Beijing to crush student-led pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square.
- 2003 - Sammy Sosa (Chicago Cubs) broke a bat when he grounded out against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. The bat he was using was a corked bat. (Illinois, Florida)
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