EVENTS
- 1858 – Abraham Lincoln makes his House Divided speech.
- 1884 – The first roller coaster in the US opens at Coney Island.
- 1903 – The Ford Motor Company incorporates.
Ford Motor Company - 1960 – Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho is premiered. The horror-thriller starring Anthony Perkins and Vera Miles has become one of the classics of the genre. The shower scene is one of the best-known murder scenes in the history of film.
- 1963 – Valentina Tereshkova, 26, became the first woman in space as her Soviet spacecraft, Vostok 6, took off from the Tyuratam launch site. She manually controlled the spacecraft completing 48 orbits in 71 hours before landing safely.
- 1967 – The Monterey Pop Festival opens. The three-day concert event featured historic performances by Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Ravi Shankar, and Janis Joplin.
- 1976 – South African police kill hundreds of protesting schoolchildren. An estimated 20,000 youth were protesting against the introduction of Afrikaans as the languages of instruction in their schools when police officers started firing into the crowd. The “Soweto uprising” is today commemorated on Youth Day each year.
- 2003 – The famous fighting families, the Hatfield’s and McCoys, make peace.
- 2010 – The world’s first country-wide total tobacco ban goes into effect. Bhutan banned the cultivation, harvesting, production, and sale of tobacco and tobacco products. It is still legal in the South Asian country to smoke in a private setting, but obtaining tobacco products legally is close to impossible.
BIRTHDAYS
- 1723 – Adam Smith (Economist)
- 1882 – Mohammad Mosaddegh (Iranian politician, 60th Prime Minister of Iran)
- 1890 – Stan Laurel (Laurel of Laurel and Hardy)
- 1912 – Enoch Powell (British politician)
- 1917 – Irving Penn (Photographer)
- 1920 – American author and photographer John Griffin (1920-1980) was born in Dallas, Texas
- 1938 – Joyce Carol Oates (Novelist)
- 1970 – Phil Mickelson (Golfer)
- 1971 – Tupac Shakur (American rapper, producer, actor)
Tupac Shakur
DEATHS
- 1722 – John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (English general, politician)
John Churchill - 1969 – Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (English field marshal, 17th Governor General of Canada)
- 1977 – Wernher von Braun (German physicist, engineer)
- 1993 – Lindsay Hassett (Australian cricketer)
- 2014 – Tony Gwynn (American baseball player, coach)
