Events, Births and Deaths Happening on this Date

1781

Los Angeles was founded by 44 Spanish settlers.

1888

George Eastman received a patent for his roll-film camera and registered his trademark: ''Kodak.''

1894

Some 12,000 tailors in New York City went on strike to protest the existence of sweatshops.

1917

The American expeditionary force in France suffered its first fatalities in World War I.

1948

Queen Wilhelmina abdicated the Dutch throne for health reasons.

1951

In the first live coast-to-coast television broadcast, President Truman addressed the nation from the Japanese peace treaty conference in San Francisco.

1957

Ford Motor Co. began selling its ill-fated Edsel line.

1957

Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus called out the National Guard to prevent nine black students from from enrolling in Little Rock Central High School, resulting in the lawsuit Cooper v. Aaron the following year.

1967

Michigan Gov. George Romney said during a TV interview that he had undergone a ''brainwashing'' by U.S. officials during a 1965 visit to Vietnam, a comment that apparently damaged Romney's bid for the Republican presidential nomination.

1972

U.S. swimmer Mark Spitz won a record seventh Olympic gold medal in the 400-meter relay at the Munich Summer Olympics.

1997

A trio of Buddhist nuns acknowledged in Senate testimony that their temple outside Los Angeles illegally reimbursed donors after a fund-raiser attended by Vice President Al Gore, and later destroyed or altered records to avoid embarrassment.

1998

Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.

2001

Tokyo DisneySea opens to the public as part of the Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan.

2002

The Oakland Athletics win their 20th consecutive game, an American League record.

2007

Three terrorists suspected to be a part of Al-Qaeda are arrested in Germany after allegedly planning attacks on both the Frankfurt International airport and US military installations.

2010

A 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes the South Island of New Zealand causing widespread damage and several power outages.

2020

Pope Benedict XVI becomes the longest-lived pope, 93 years, four months, 16 days, surpassing Pope Leo XIII, who died in 1903.

2022

Ten people are killed and 15 are injured in a stabbing spree in 13 locations on the James Smith Cree Nation and in Weldon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

1995

William Kunstler. American lawyer and activist, died in New York at age 76. (b. 1919)