1701: Anders Celsius was born in Sweden. He was the inventor of the Celsius thermometer.
1779: The College of Pennsylvania became the University of Pennsylvania. It was the first legally recognized university in America.
1839: The American Statistical Association was founded in Boston.
1889: Curtis P. Brady was issued the first permit to drive an automobile through Central Park in New York City.
1901: The Army War College was established in Washington, DC.
1910: New York's Pennsylvania Station opened.
1939: The play "Key Largo," by Maxwell Anderson, opened in New York.
1951: Hosea Richardson became the first black horse racing jockey to be licensed in Florida.
1963: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson delivered his first address to a joint session of Congress.
1970: Pope Paul VI, visiting the Philippines, was attacked at the Manila airport by a Bolivian painter disguised as a priest.
1973: The U.S. Senate voted to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president after the resignation of Spiro T. Agnew.
1978: San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, were shot to death inside City Hall by Dan White, a former supervisor.
1980: Dave Williams (Chicago Bears) became the first player in NFL history to return a kick for touchdown in overtime.
1983: 183 people were killed when a Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashed near Barajas airport in Madrid.
1985: The British House of Commons approved the Anglo-Irish accord giving Dublin a consulting role in the governing of British-ruled Northern Ireland.
1987: French hostages Jean-Louis Normandin and Roger Auque were set free by their pro-Iranian captors in West Beirut, Lebanon.
1989: 107 people were killed when a bomb destroyed a Colombian jetliner minutes after the plane had taken off from Bogota's international airport. Police blamed the incident on drug traffickers.
1991: The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution that led the way for the establishment of a UN peacekeeping operation in Yugoslavia.
1992: In Venezuela, rebel forces tried but failed to overthrow President Carlos Andres Perez for the second time in ten months.