1545 – The first landing of French troops onto the coast of the Isle of Wight during the French invasion
1853 – Central Park in New York created when New York State Legislature puts aside more than 750 acres of land on Manhattan Island
1865 – In market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first true western showdown
1944 – British premier Winston Churchill flies to France, meets Montgomery
1952 – 7.8 earthquake shakes Kern County California, 14 killed
1954 – Geneva Accords for Indochina signed, dividing French colonial territories into the countries of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam), the State of Vietnam (South Vietnam), Cambodia, and Laos
1969 – Apollo 11: Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to step on the Moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT)
1973 – France performs nuclear Test at Mururoa Atoll in the Pacific
1975 – Soyuz 19 returns to Earth
1997 – NY Yank Mike Whiton held in Milwaukee on charges of sexual assault