Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 - Philosopher, writer, composer
- 1778 - Mary "Molly Pitcher" Hays McCauley, wife of an American artilleryman, carried water to the soldiers during the Battle of Monmouth and, supposedly, took her husband's place at his gun after he was overcome with heat.
- 1914 - Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, was assassinated in Sarajevo along with his wife, Duchess Sophie.
- 1949 - The last U.S. combat troops were called home from Korea, leaving only 500 advisers.
- 1950 - North Korean forces captured Seoul, South Korea.
- 1978 - The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the medical school at the University of California at Davis to admit Allan Bakke. Bakke, a white man, argued he had been a victim of reverse racial discrimination.
- 2007 - The American bald eagle was removed from the endangered species list.
- 2010 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Americans have the right to own a gun for self-defense anywhere they live.
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