Brit Hume 1943 - Broadcast journalist
- 1611 - English explorer Henry Hudson, his son and several other people were set adrift in present-day Hudson Bay by mutineers.
- 1807 - British seamen board the USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to the War of 1812.
- 1874 - Dr. Andrew Taylor Still began the first known practice of osteopathy.
- 1933 - Germany became a one political party country when Hitler banned parties other than the Nazis.
- 1945 - During World War II, the battle for Okinawa officially ended after 81 days.
- 1970 - U.S. President Richard Nixon signed an extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It required that the voting age in the United States to be 18.
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