Numero tres.
- 1533 – Pope Clement VII excommunicates Henry VIII of England.
- 1804 – A duel occurs in which the Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.
- 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Fort Stevens; Confederate forces attempt to invade Washington, D.C..
- 1889 – Tijuana, Mexico, is founded.
- 1893 – The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.
- 1895 – The Lumière brothers demonstrate film technology to scientists.
- 1897 – Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
- 1914 – Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball.
- 1919 – The eight-hour working day and free Sunday become law in the Netherlands.
- 1921 – A truce is called in the Irish War of Independence; see Irish calendar.
- 1921 – Former U.S. President William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the only person to ever be both President and Chief Justice.
- 1922 – The Hollywood Bowl opens.
- 1960 – To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published.
- 1962 – First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
- 1972 – The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts.
- 1977 – Martin Luther King, Jr. is posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.