1880 – Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky delivers an emotional speech at the unveiling of a monument to Pushkin in Moscow
1940 – 72nd Belmont: Fred A Smith aboard Bimelech wins in 2:29.6
1955 – MLB Brooklyn Dodgers option pitcher (and future Baseball Hall of Fame manager) Tommy Lasorda to make room on roster for future Hall of Famer, pitcher Sandy Koufax
1956 – Richard B. Fitzgibbon, Jr. killed by another USAF airman in Vietnam, becoming the first American killed in the Vietnam War
1965 – US troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam
1973 – Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco appointed premier of Spain
1981 – MLB Seattle Mariners draft Mike Moore #1
1992 – NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe is banned from baseball for 7th time
2008 – Akihabara massacre takes place on the crowded Sunday pedestrian-zoned Chūōdōri street in Tokyo, Japan, when a man uses a truck and dagger to kill seven people and injure 11
2023 – British PM Rishi Sunak meets US President Joe Biden at the White House in Washington announcing an economic partnership, to investigate dangers of A.I. and re-stating their long-term support for Ukraine