1848 – The first Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, a two-day event, concludes.
1903 – The Ford Motor Company ships its first car.
1949 – Israel and Syria sign a truce to end their nineteen-month war.
1960 – Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) elects Sirimavo Bandaranaike Prime Minister, the world’s first elected female head of government.
1968 – The first International Special Olympics Summer Games are held at Soldier Field in Chicago, with about 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities.
1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11’s crew successfully makes the first manned landing on the Moon in the Sea of Tranquility. Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon
2015 – The United States and Cuba resume full diplomatic relations after five decades.
Births
356 BC – Alexander the Great, Macedonian king (d. 323 BC)
Alexander the Great ruled from 332-323 BC, during which he spent most of his time on a groundbreaking military campaign through Asia and Northeast Asia. By the age of thirty, he had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world, stretching from Greece to northwestern India. In the years following his death, a series of civil wars tore his empire apart.
1822 – Gregor Mendel, Czech geneticist, and botanist, father of modern genetics (d. 1884)
1929 – Mike Ilitch, an American businessman, co-founded Little Caesars
Deaths
1320 – Oshin, King of Armenia (b. 1282)
1983 – Frank Reynolds, American soldier, and journalist (b. 1923)
1993 – Vince Foster, American lawyer, Deputy White House Counsel