Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 - Philosopher, writer, composer
- 1902 - The U.S. Congress passed the Spooner bill, it authorized a canal to be built across the isthmus of Panama.
- 1914 - Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, was assassinated in Sarajevo along with his wife, Duchess Sophie.
- 1939 - Pan American Airways began the first transatlantic passenger service.
- 1949 - The last U.S. combat troops were called home from Korea, leaving only 500 advisers.
- 1950 - North Korean forces captured Seoul, South Korea.
- 1978 - The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the medical school at the University of California at Davis to admit Allan Bakke. Bakke, a white man, argued he had been a victim of reverse racial discrimination.
- 2000 - Six-year-old EliΓ‘n GonzΓ‘lez returned to Cuba from the U.S. with his father. The child had been the center of an international custody dispute.
- 2010 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Americans have the right to own a gun for self-defense anywhere they live.
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