Alistair Cooke 1908 - British journalist, television personality
- 1818 - Simon Bolivar formally declared Venezuela independent of Spain.
- 1873 - Budapest was formed when the rival cities of Buda and Pest were united to form the capital of Hungary.
- 1943 - During World War II, U.S. Marines began their landing on Tarawa and Makin atolls in the Gilbert Islands.
- 1947 - Britain's Princess Elizabeth married Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh in Westminster Abbey.
- 1983 - An estimated 100 million people watched the controversial ABC-TV movie "The Day After." The movie depicted the outbreak of nuclear war.
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