Oliver Hazard Perry 1785
- 1839 - Hong Kong was taken by the British in a war with China.
- 1902 - Fannie Merrit Farmer opened her cooking school, Miss Farmer's School of Cookery, in Boston, MA.
- 1959 - In the Peanuts comic strip, Sally debuted as an infant.
- 1962 - The first live TV program was relayed between the U.S. and Europe through the U.S. Telstar satellite.
- 1979 - Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defected while the Bolshoi Ballet was on tour in New York City.
- 1982 - The parliament of Lebanon elected Bashir Bemayel president. He was assassinated three weeks later.
- 1990 - President Saddam Hussein appeared on Iraqi state television with a group of Western detainees that he referred to as "guests." He told the group that they were being held "to prevent the scourge of war."
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