Events, Births and Deaths Happening on this Date

1483

England's King Richard III was crowned.

1535

Sir Thomas More was executed in England for treason.

1777

British forces captured Fort Ticonderoga during the American Revolution.

1885

French scientist Louis Pasteur successfully tested an anti-rabies vaccine on a boy bitten by an infected dog.

1917

Arab forces led by T.E. Lawrence captured the port of Aqaba from the Turks during World War I.

1923

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was formed.

1928

A preview was held in New York of the first all-talking movie feature, ''The Lights of New York.''

1933

Baseball's first all-star game was held at Chicago's Comiskey Park. The American League beat the National League 4-2.

1944

Fire broke out in the main tent of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Hartford, Conn., killing 169 people.

1945

President Harry Truman established the Presidential Medal of Freedom by signing Executive Order 9586.

1957

Althea Gibson became the first black tennis player to win a Wimbledon singles title, defeating fellow American Darlene Hard 6-3, 6-2.

1976

The U.S. Naval Academy admitted female cadets for the first time. 55 women would go on to graduate as part of the Class of 1980.

1989

The U.S. Army destroyed its last Pershing 1-A missiles at an ammunition plant in Karnack, Texas, under terms of the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty.

1997

The rover Sojourner rolled down a ramp from the Mars Pathfinder lander onto the Martian landscape to begin inspecting soil and rocks.

1998

Protestants rioted in many parts of Northern Ireland after British authorities blocked an Orange Order march in Portadown.

2006

The Nathu La pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years.

2013

At least 42 people are killed in a shooting at a school in Yobe State, Nigeria.

2013

A Boeing 777 operating as Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashes at San Francisco International Airport, killing three and injuring 181 of the 307 people on board.

2016

Philando Castile, a 32-year-old Black man, was fatally shot by a Minnesota police officer during a traffic stop when the officer believed Castile was reaching for a gun. The officer would later be acquitted, which would lead to hundreds of protests.

2021

An Antonov An-26 operating as Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Flight 251 crashes on approach to Palana Airport, killing all 28 aboard.

2022

The Georgia Guidestones, a monument in the United States, are heavily damaged in a bombing, and are dismantled later the same day.

1946

Former President George W. Bush was born in New Haven, Connecticut.

1998

Singing cowboy star Roy Rogers died in Apple Valley, Calif., at age 86.