William Styron 1925 - Novelist and essayist
- 1509 - King Henry VIII married his first of six wives, Catherine of Aragon.
- 1770 - Captain James Cook discovered the Great Barrier Reef off of Australia when he ran aground.
- 1880 - Republican, Jeanette Rankin was born. She became the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress.
- 1895 - Charles E. Duryea received the first U.S. patent granted to an American inventor for a gasoline-driven automobile.
- 1930 - William Beebe dove to a record-setting depth of 1,426 feet off the coast of Bermuda. He used a diving chamber called a bathysphere.
- 1947 - The U.S. government announced an end to sugar rationing.
- 1963 - Alabama Gov. George Wallace allowed two black students to enroll at the University of Alabama.
- 1993 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that people who commit "hate crimes" could be sentenced to extra punishment. The court also ruled in favor of religious groups saying that they indeed had a constitutional right to sacrifice animals during worship services.
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