1938 - Northwestern University awards an honorary degree to ventriloquist dummy Charlie McCarthy.
1963 - The Evergreen Point Floating Bridge opens (connects Seattle and Bellevue0; Martin Luther King, Jr. makes his "I have a dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial.
1968 - In Chicago, police and anti-war demonstrators clash at the Democratic National Convention.
1974 - Soyuz-15 returns to Earth.
1981 - John Hinckley, Jr. pleads innocent in the assassination attempt of President Ronald Reagan; the National Centers for Disease Control report a high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men (precursor to the A.I.D.S. discovery)
1983 - Israeli P.M. Menachem Begin announces his resignation.
1986 - U.S. Navy officer Jerry A. Whitworth is sentenced to 365 years for spying.
1988 - Three Italian AF fighter jets collide and crash at an airshow in Germany, killing 70.
1990 - Iraq declares Kuwait its 19th province.

Birthdays
1592 - George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, royal minister to King James I of England
1774 - Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, first American Catholic saint
1831 - Lucy Ware Webb Hayes, First Lady to Rutherford B. Hayes
1878 - George Hoyt Whipple, astrophysicist, Nobel Prize winner (1934)
1906 - Sir John Betjeman, poet laureate of England (Mt. Zion)
1939 - Cassie Mackin, newswoman (NBC TV)
1940 - William Cohen (Sen-ME)
1960 - Leroy Chiao, astronaut
1968 - Scarlet Annette Morgan, Miss NC-America (1991)

Passings
1818 - Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, trader / founder of Chicago
1955 - Emmett Till, kidnapped and lynched at 14 in Money, Mississippi
1961 - Thomas Connolly, first baseball umpire elected to the Hall of Fame
1964 - Gracie Allen, Mrs George Burns / comedian (Burns & Allen)
1985 - Ruth Gordon, actress

Reported Missing in Action
1962
Simpson, Robert Lewis, USAF (Panama); T22B shot down, KIA, body not recovered

1965
Schierman, Wesley D., USAF (WA); F105D shot down, released by DRV (injured) - retired as a Major - alive and well as of 1998

1966
Babula, Robert L., USMC (PA); disappeared on mission to establish ambush site

Bodenschatz, John E., USMC (CA); disappeared on mission to establish ambush site

Borton, Robert C., Jr., USMC (MI); disappeared on mission to establish ambush site, remains ID'd March, 1995 (family rejects ID)

Carter, Dennis R., USMC (CA); disappeared on mission to establish ambush site

1967
Degnan, Jerry L., Civilian
Wallace, Charles Franklin, USMC (MS); A4E shot down

1968
Miller, Robert Charles, USAF (CA); T28 shot down (pilot), KIA, body not recovered

Phillips, Elbert Austin, USAF (AL); T28 shot down (non-aircrew); KIA, body not recovered