Events, Births and Deaths Happening on this Date

1066

Normans under William the Conqueror defeated the English at the Battle of Hastings.

1912

Theodore Roosevelt, campaigning for the presidency, was shot in the chest in Milwaukee. Despite the wound, he went ahead with a scheduled speech.

1933

Nazi Germany announced it was withdrawing from the League of Nations.

1944

German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel committed suicide rather than face execution for allegedly conspiring against Adolf Hitler.

1960

The idea of a Peace Corps was first suggested by Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy to an audience of students at the University of Michigan.

1964

Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

1968

The first live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft was transmitted from Apollo 7.

1986

Holocaust survivor and human rights advocate Elie Wiesel was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

1991

Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for her struggle to achieve democracy in her homeland.

1996

Pop singer Madonna gave birth to a daughter, Lourdes Maria Ciccone Leon.

1998

Federal authorities charged Eric Robert Rudolph, one of FBI's 10 most-wanted fugitives, with the bombing at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

1890

Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States, was born in Denison, Texas.

1973

George Floyd was an black American man who was allegedly killed by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an arrest made after a store clerk suspected Floyd had used a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill. (d. 2020)

1977

Singer Bing Crosby died outside Madrid, Spain, at age 73.

1990

Composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein died in New York at age 72.

1997

Novelist Harold Robbins died in Palm Springs, Calif., at age 81.