456 – The Visigoths under King Theodoric II, acting on orders of the Roman emperor Avitus, invade Iberia with an army of Burgundians, Franks and Goths, led by the Kings Chilperic I and Gondioc. They defeat the Suebi under King Rechiar on the river Urbicus near Astorga (Gallaecia).
816 – King Louis the Pious is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Stephen IV at Reims.
869 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople is convened to decide about what to do about patriarch Photius of Constantinople.
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1789 – French Revolution: Women of Paris march to Versailles in the March on Versailles to confront Louis XVI of France about his refusal to promulgate the decrees on the abolition of feudalism, demand bread, and have the King and his court moved to Paris.
1813 – Battle of the Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British and kill Shawnee leader Tecumseh.
1864 – Calcutta is almost totally destroyed by a cyclone; 60,000 die.
1905 – Wilbur Wright pilots Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that stood until 1908.
1947 – The first televised White House address is given by President Harry S. Truman.
1948 – The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 110,000.
1962 – The Beatles’ first single, “Love Me Do” backed with “P.S. I Love You”, is released in the United Kingdom.
1982 – Chicago Tylenol murders: Johnson & Johnson initiates a nationwide product recall in the United States for all products in its Tylenol brand after several bottles in Chicago are found to have been laced with cyanide, resulting in seven deaths.
Births
1377 – Louis II of Naples (d. 1417)
1717 – Marie Anne de Mailly, French mistress of Louis XV of France
1829 – Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (d. 1886)
1882 – Robert H. Goddard, physicist, engineer, and academic (d. 1945)
1892 – Remington Kellogg, American zoologist and paleontologist (d. 1969)
1902 – Ray Kroc, businessman and philanthropist (d. 1984)
1936 – Václav Havel, Czech poet, playwright, prisoner then first President of the Czech Republic (d. 2011)
1958 – Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist, cosmologist, and author
Deaths
578 – Justin II, Byzantine emperor (b. 520)
1056 – Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1017)
1112 – Sigebert of Gembloux, French monk, historian, and author (b. 1030)
1813 – Tecumseh, American tribal leader (b. 1768)
1941 – Louis Brandeis, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1856)
1942 – Dorothea Klumpke, American astronomer (b. 1861)
1983 – Earl Tupper, inventor, founded the Tupperware Corporation
1986 – James H. Wilkinson, mathematician, computer scientist (b. 1919)
1996 – Seymour Cray, engineer/businessman, founded CRAY Inc (b. 1925)
2004 – Rodney Dangerfield, comedian, actor, producer, /screenwriter
2011 – Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Inc. and Pixar (b. 1955)
