| 1643 | Louis XIV became King of France at age 4 on the death of his father, Louis XIII. |
|---|---|
| 1787 | Delegates began gathering in Philadelphia for a convention to draw up the U.S. Constitution. |
| 1796 | English physician Edward Jenner administered the first vaccination against smallpox. |
| 1804 | The Lewis and Clark expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory left St. Louis. |
| 1904 | The first Olympic games to be held in the United States opened in St. Louis. |
| 1942 | Aaron Copland's "Lincoln Portrait" was first performed, by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. |
| 1942 | The Women's Auxiliary Army Corps was established. |
| 1955 | Representatives from the Soviet Union and seven other Communist bloc countries signed the Warsaw Pact in Poland. |
| 1973 | The United States launched Skylab 1, its first manned space station. |
| 1998 | Singer Frank Sinatra died at age 82. |
| 1998 | The TV series "Seinfeld" aired its final episode. |
| 2001 | The Supreme Court ruled that there is no exception in federal law for people to use marijuana to ease their pain from cancer, AIDS or other illnesses. |
| 2007 | DaimlerChrysler said it was selling almost all of Chrysler to a private equity firm for $7.4 billion, backing out of a troubled 1998 takeover. |
| 2007 | The trial of suspected al-Qaida operative Jose Padilla opened in Miami. (Padilla was later convicted of terrorism conspiracy and sentenced to 17 years in prison.) |
| 2008 | The Interior Department declared the polar bear a threatened species because of the loss of Arctic sea ice. |
| 2011 | Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund and potential candidate for president of France, was charged with sexually assaulting a Manhattan hotel maid. (He later resigned from the IMF; the charges against him were dropped.) |
Berfdays!!!!
George Lucas, 68
Mark Zuckerberg, 28
Tony Perez, 70
Robert Zemekis, 61
Tim Roth, 51
Cate Blanchett, 43
Sofia Coppola, 41
Roy Halladay, 35
Dan Auerbach!!!!!, 33
Amber Tamblyn, 29
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