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Events
- 490 BC - Athens defeats Persia at the Battle of Marathon; origin of the marathon long-distance race (attributed to Pheidippides)
- 1609 - Henry Hudson discovers the Hudson River.
- 1683 - Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna - Several European armies join forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire.
- 1848 - Switzerland became a Federal state.
- 1890 - Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.
- 1938 - Adolf Hitler demands autonomy for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
- 1940 - Cave paintings discovered in Lascaux, France.
- 1943 - World War II: Benito Mussolini, leader of Italy, is rescued from house arrest on the Gran Sasso in Abruzzi, by German commando Otto Skorzeny.
- 1953 - Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- 1959 - The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.
- 1980 - Military coup in Turkey.
- 1994 - Frank Eugene Corder crashes a Cessna 150 into the White House's south lawn, striking the West wing and killing himself.
Births
- 1575 - Henry Hudson, English explorer (d. 1611)
- 1880 - H. L. Mencken, American journalist and author (d. 1956)
- 1892 - Alfred A. Knopf, American publisher (d. 1984)
- 1897 - Walter B. Gibson, American author and a professional magician (d. 1985)
- 1913 - Jesse Owens, American athlete (d. 1980)
Deaths
- 1993 - Raymond Burr, Canadian actor (b. 1917)
- 2003 - Johnny Cash, American singer and guitarist (b. 1932)
