1806 ~ Lieutenant Zebulon Pike began his western expedition from Fort Belle Fountaine, near St. Louis, MS.

1857 ~ British women and children were murdered in the second Cawnpore Massacre during the Indian Mutiny.

1870 ~ Georgia became the last of the Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.

1888 ~ "Printers�?Ink" was first sold.

1904 ~ The first Buddhist temple in the U.S. was established in Los Angeles, CA.

1916 ~  In Seattle, WA, Pacific Aero Products was incorporated by William Boeing. The company was later renamed Boeing Co. 

1922 ~ The duck-billed platypus arrived in America, direct from Australia. It was exhibited at the Bronx Zoo in New York City.

1940 ~ Robert Wadlow died at the age of 22. At that time he was 8 feet, 11-1/10 inches tall and weighed 439 pounds.

1958 ~ Five thousand U.S. Marines landed in Beirut, Lebanon, to protect the pro-Western government. The troops withdrew October 25, 1958.

1968 ~  ABC-TV premiered "One Life to Live".

1968 ~ Commercial air travel began between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., when the first plane, a Soviet Aeroflot jet, landed at Kennedy International Airport in New York. 

1973 ~ Nolan Ryan of the California Angels became the first pitcher in two decades to win two no-hitters in a season.  

1976 ~ A 36-hour kidnap ordeal began for 26 schoolchildren and their bus driver when they were abducted by three gunmen near Chowchilla, CA. All of the captives escaped unharmed.

1981 ~ Steven Ford, son of former President Gerald R. Ford, appeared in a seduction scene of "The Young and the Restless" on CBS-TV. Ford played the part of Andy.

1997 ~ Gianni Versace was shot to death by Andrew Phillip Cunanan outside his home in Miami, FL. Cunanan was found dead eight days later.

1999 ~ Harold Greene received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

2002 ~ John Walker Lindh plead guilty to two felonies. The crimes were supplying services to Afghanistan's former Taliban government and for carrying explosives during the commission of a felony. Lindh agreed to spend 10 years in prison for each of the charges.