| 1647 | Peter Stuyvesant arrived in New Amsterdam to become governor. |
| 1858 | Minnesota became the 32nd state of the Union. |
| 1894 | Workers at the Pullman Palace Car Co. in Illinois went on strike. (The American Railway Union, led by Eugene Debs, subsequently began a boycott of Pullman that blocked freight traffic in and out of Chicago.) |
| 1910 | Glacier National Park in Montana was established. |
| 1944 | Allied forces launched a major offensive in central Italy. |
| 1946 | The first CARE packages for Europe arrived at Le Havre, France. |
| 1947 | The B.F. Goodrich Co. of Akron, Ohio, announced the development of a tubeless tire. |
| 1949 | Israel was admitted to the United Nations as the world body's 59th member. |
| 1949 | Siam changed its named to Thailand. |
| 1973 | Charges against Daniel Ellsberg for his role in the Pentagon Papers case were dismissed by Judge William M. Byrne, who cited government misconduct. |
| 1985 | More than 50 people died when a flash fire swept a jam-packed soccer stadium in Bradford, England. |
| 1996 | An Atlanta-bound ValuJet DC-9 caught fire shortly after takeoff from Miami and crashed into the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 people on board |
| 1997 | The Deep Blue IBM computer defeated Garry Kasparov to win a six-game chess match between man and machine in New York. |
| 1998 | India set off three underground atomic blasts, its first nuclear tests in 24 years. |
| 1998 | A French mint produced the first coins of Europe's single currency, the euro. |
