Diana Rigg 1938 - Actress (Medea, King Lear, The Avengers)
- 1810 - Colombia declared independence from Spain.
- 1871 - British Columbia joined Confederation as a Canadian province.
- 1917 - The draft lottery in World War I went into operation.
- 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.
- 1976 - America's Viking I robot spacecraft made a successful landing on Mars.
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