1520 Suleiman the Magnificent succeeds his father Selam I as Ottoman Sultan (rules till 1566)

1659 Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked (according to Daniel Defoe's famous novel)

1777 Continental Congress, flees to York, Pennsylvania, as British forces advance

1787 1st US voyage around the world - Columbia leaves Boston

1841 Samuel Slocum patents the stapler

1846 Anesthetic ether is used for the 1st time, by American dentist Dr William Morton who extracts a tooth

1857 US occupies Sand, Baker, Howland & Jarvis Island, south of Hawaii

1864 13 Black soldiers among the first Black soldiers to be honored with US Medal of Honor for leading charges against Confederate fortifications during Battle of New Market Heights, Virginia

1867 Midway Islands formally declared a US possession

1877 1st US amateur swim meet (NY Athletic Club)

1880 American amateur astronomer Henry Draper takes the 1st ever photograph of the Orion Nebula

1888 "Jack the Ripper" murders 2 more women, Liz Stride & Kate Eddowes, in Whitechapel, London

1898 City of NY established

1919 Elaine Massacre: Arkansas state militia and rioters kill over 200 hundred Black people in response to sharecroppers' attempt to organize against landowners; trials of survivors for murder leads to Supreme Court enacted judicial reforms

1920 Time Square Theater opens at 217 W 42nd St NYC

1935 The Boulder Dam (later the Hoover Dam), astride the border of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt

1946 Twenty-two Nazi leaders, including Joachim von Ribbentrop and Hermann Goering, are found guilty of war crimes and sentenced to death or prison at the Nuremberg war trials

1949 American chemist Percy L. Julian at the Glidden Company announces an improved method for producing cortisone

1953 Earl Warren appointed Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court

1954 1st nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus, commissioned by the US Navy

1960 On Howdy Doody's last show Clarabelle finally talks "Goodbye Kids"

1962 Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the United Farm Workers

1968 1st Boeing 747 jumbo jet rolls out

1975 5 drown in flash flood of sewer and water tunnel at Niagara Falls, New York

1975 The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.

1980 Ethernet specifications published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation

1988 IBM announces shipment of 3 millionth PS/2 personal computer

1993 US Army General Colin Powell retires at 56

General and US Secretary of State Colin Powell

1994 Space shuttle STS-68 (Endeavour 7), launches into orbit

1997 Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 4

2004 The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo

2014 A case of Ebola Virus reaches Dallas, Texas

2019 315 billion-tonne iceberg named D28 calves from Amery ice shelf, Antarctica