| 1619 | | The House of Burgesses convenes for the first time at Jamestown, Va. |
| 1787 | | The French parliament refuses to approve a more equitable land tax. |
| 1799 | | The French garrison at Mantua, Italy, surrenders to the Austrians. |
| 1864 | | In an effort to penetrate the Confederate lines around Petersburg, Va. Union troops explode a mine underneath the Confederate trenches but fail to break through. The ensuing action is known as the Battle of the Crater. |
| 1919 | | Federal troops are called out to put down Chicago race riots. |
| 1938 | | George Eastman demonstrates his color motion picture process. |
| 1940 | | A bombing lull ends the first phase of the Battle of Britain. |
| 1960 | | Over 60,000 Buddhists march in protest against the Diem government in South Vietnam. |
| 1965 | | President Lyndon Johnson signs the Medicare Bill into law. |
| 1967 | | General William Westmoreland claims that he is winning the war in Vietnam, but needs more men. |
| 1975 | | Teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa disappears, last seen coming out of a restaurant in Bloomingfield Hills, Michigan. |
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