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1534 –
Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach
Prince Edward Island.
1613 – The
Globe Theatre in London burns to the ground.
1776 – Father Francisco Palou founds
Mission San Francisco de Asís in what is now San Francisco, CA.
1786 –
Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in
Glengarry County, Ontario, Canada.
1880 – France annexes
Tahiti.
1888 –
George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a
phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
1927 – The
Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.
First test of
Wallace Turnbull's
controllable-pitch propeller.
1956 – The
Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed, officially creating the United States
Interstate Highway System.
1974 –
Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with the
Kirov Ballet.
1975 –
Steve Wozniak tested his first prototype of the
Apple I computer.
1985 -
John Lennon's
1965 Rolls-Royce Phantom V limousine, with psychedelic paintwork, sold for a record sum of $3,006,385, (£1,768,462) at a Sotheby's auction in New York.
1988 - Brenda Richie, the wife of
Lionel Richie was arrested in Beverly Hills, California after allegedly hitting the singer and a young woman after she found them in bed together.
1999 -
Michael Jackson suffered severe bruising after falling over 50 feet when a bridge collapsed during a concert at Munich's Olympic stadium.
2007 – Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone.
2012 – A
derecho sweeps across the eastern United States, leaving at least 22 people dead and millions without power.
Births
1861 – William James Mayo (co-founder
Mayo Clinic); 1901 – Nelson Eddy; 1910 – Frank Loesser; 1919 – Slim Pickens; 1920 – Ray Harryhausen; 1930 – Robert Evans; 1936 – Harmon Killebrew; 1943 – Little Eva; 1944 – Gary Busey; 1948 – Fred Grandy, Ian Paice (Deep Purple); 1949 – Dan Dierdorf; 1953 – Don Dokken

, Colin Hay; 1957 – María Conchita Alonso; 1957 – Michael Nutter; 1961 – Sharon Lawrence; 1967 – Jeff Burton (NASCAR driver); 1978 – Nicole Scherzinger; 1980 – Martin Truex Jr. (NASCAR driver)
Deaths
1852 – Henry Clay; 1861 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning; 1933 – Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle; 1940 – Paul Klee; 1941 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski; 1967 – Jayne Mansfield; 1975 – Tim Buckley; 1978 – Bob Crane; 1979 – Lowell George; 1995 – Lana Turner; 1997 – William Hickey; 2002 – Rosemary Clooney; 2003 – Katharine Hepburn; 2007 – Fred Saberhagen, Joel Siegel; 2008 – Don S. Davis (Stargate SG-1); 2013 – Victor Lundin (Star Trek's first Klingon)