Diana Rigg 1938 - Actress (Medea, King Lear, The Avengers)
- 1801 - A 1,235 pound cheese ball was pressed at the farm of Elisha Brown, Jr. The ball of cheese was later loaded on a horse-driven wagon and presented to U.S. President Thomas Jefferson at the White House.
- 1861 - The Congress of the Confederate States began holding sessions in Richmond, VA.
- 1942 - The first detachment of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, (WACS) began basic training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa.
- 1944 - An attempt by a group of German officials to assassinate Adolf Hitler failed. The bomb exploded at Hitler's Rastenburg headquarters. Hitler was only wounded.
- 1969 - Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. became the first men to walk on the moon.
- 1998 - Russia won a $11.2 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund to help avert the devaluation of its currency.
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