Birthdays1820 Florence Nightengale
1907 Katharine Hepburn
1925 Yogi Berra
1956 Homer Simpson1970 Jim Furyk
Events1551 San Marcos University in Lima, Peru, opens (oldest continuously operating university in the Americas)
1689 England & Netherlands form League of Augsburg - Isn't Augsburg in Bavaria?
1784 Ratified copies of the Treaty of Paris, ending the Revolutionary War exchanged between US and Great Britain, in Paris1789 William Wilberforce makes his first major speech on abolition in the UK House of Commons, reasoning the slave trade morally reprehensible and an issue of natural justice
1865 Last land action of Civil war at Palmito Ranch, Texas a Confederate victory1919 New York Yankees and Washington Senators play second straight extra inning tie, 4-4 in 15 innings at the Polo Grounds; 0-0 in 12 the previous day1926 Airship Norge is the first vessel to fly over North Pole, led by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and piloted by the craft's Italian designer Umberto Nobile
1932 Body of kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh is found in Hopewell, New Jersey1940 Nazi blitzkrieg and conquest of France begins with German forces crossing the Muese River
1942 Nazi U-boat sinks American cargo ship at mouth of Mississippi River
1949 The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of West Berlin after the US, the UK, and their allies successfully supply the city during the Berlin Airlift
1958 "Nee Nee Na Na Na Na Nu Nu" by Dicky Doo & The Don'ts hits #401958 US & Canada form North American Air Defense Command (NORAD)
1963 Bob Dylan walks out of "The Ed Sullivan Show" over a dispute about his song choice
1968 "March of the Poor" under Rev Ralph Abernathy reaches Washington, D.C.
1973 "Dueling Tubas" novelty single by Martin Mull hits #92
1982 Assassination Attempt on John Paul II
1995 Jose Mesa gets 1st of his M.L. record 37 consecutive saves
2002 Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro, becoming the first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.
2008 Wenchuan earthquake, measuring 7.8 in magnitude occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 87,000, injuring 374,643 and leaving homeless between 4.8 million and 11 million people
2025 US and China agree to a 90-day trade deal in which tariffs on most Chinese imports will drop from 145% to 30%, and tariffs on US imports will drop from 125% to 10%
Fun Fact About Today1941 Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin