1619 | Civil Rights: The first recorded enslaved people, brought by Europeans, arrived in Point Comfort, Virginia, aboard the White Lion; the English colony had already established the practice of indentured servitude.
1794 | Indian Wars: General Wayne defeats the joint British and Native forces at the Battle of Fallen Timbers.
1804 | Explorer and frontiersman Charles Floyd died, the only member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition to die.
1832 | Inventor Thaddeus S. C. Lowe was born.
1833 | POTUS: President Benjamin Harrison was born.
1856 | Wilberforce University was formed in Ohio, America’s first HBCU.
1866 | POTUS: Democrat President Johnson proclaimed an “end to insurrection in the United States.”
1873 | Architect Eliel Saarinen was born.
1890 | Author H. P. Lovecraft was born.
1910 | The Big Blowup (Great Fire of 1910), a massive wildfire sweeping through northern Idaho and western Montana, burns 3 million acres and kills 87 people.
1920 | America’s first commercial radio station, 8MK (WWJ), Detroit, Michigan, begins broadcasting.
1920 | The American Professional Football Association forms with Jim Thorpe as president (forerunner to the NFL).
1931 | Entrepreneur Don King was born.
1942 | Musician Isaac Hayes was born.
1952 | Musician Doug Fieger was born in Oak Park, Michigan.
1954 | Weatherman Al Roker was born.
1960 | Civil Rights: El Cajon Boulevard Riot, San Diego, California.
1971 | The FBI begins a covert investigation of journalist Daniel Schorr.
1983 | Actor Andrew Garfield was born.
1986 | Postal worker Patrick Sherrill shot 14 fellow workers in Edmond, Oklahoma, giving rise to the quip “going postal.”
1992 | Musician Demi Lovato was born.
1997 | Scientist Norris Bradbury died.
2006 | Photographer Joe Rosenthal died.
2012 | Actress Phyllis Diller died.
2013 | Author Elmore Leonard died.
2015 | 30 students at West Point Military Academy were injured in a mass pillow fight.
2017 | Comedian Jerry Lewis died.
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