1264 - Battle of Lewes : Henry III of England is captured in France making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England .
1509 - Battle of Agnadello : In northern Italy , French forces defeat Venitians .
1643 - Four year-old Louix XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII .
1787 - In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , delegates begin to meet to write a new Constitution for the United States .
1796 - Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination .
1804 - The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begin their historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River .
1811 - Paraguay gains independence from Spain .
1900 - The 1900 Summer Olympics open in Paris , France
1913 - New York Governor William Sulzer[?] approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation which begins operations with a $100,000,000 donation from John D. Rockefeller .
1935 - Filipinos ratify an independence agreement.
1940 - World War II : The Dutch city of Rotterdam is bombed by the German Luftwaffe .
1940 - World War II: The Netherlands surrender to Germany .
1948 - Israel declares itself to be an independent state and a provisional government is established.
1948 - The murder of a three-year-old girl in Blackburn[?] , England leads to the fingerprinting of more than 40,000 men in the city in an attempt to find the murderer.
1955 - Cold War : Eight communist bloc countries including the Soviet Union sign a mutual-defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact .
1961 - American civil rights movement : Freedom Riders[?] bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama and the civil rights protestors are beaten by an angry mob.
1973 - Skylab United States ' first space station , is launched.
1995 - The Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima[?] as the eleventh reincarnation of the Panchen Lama[?] .
1998 - After nine years on the air, the series finale of the television sitcom Seinfeld NBC .
1316 - Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (+ 1378 )
1727 - Thomas Gainsborough , artist (+ 1788 )
1867 - Kurt Eisner[?] , politician and publicist (+ 1919 )
1869 - Friedrich Karl Kleine[?] , physician (+ 1951 )
1884 - Claude Dornier[?] , aircraft designer (+ 1969 )
1885 - Otto Klemperer , conductor (+ 1973 )
1912 - Ben Hogan , golfer (+ 1997 )
1917 - Lou Harrison , composer (+ 2003 )
1922 - Franjo Tudjman , president of Croatia (+ 1999 )
1929 - Gump Worsley[?] , Hockey Hall of Famer
1934 - Siān Phillips , actress
1936 - Bobby Darin , singer (+ 1973 )
1943 - Jack Bruce , bass guitarist
1944 - George Lucas , film director and producer
1952 - David Byrne , singer, songwriter, guitarist
1952 - Robert Zemeckis , director
1961 - Tim Roth[?] , actor
1610 - King Henry IV of France
1847 - Fanny Mendelssohn , composer and pianist
1912 - August Strindberg , author
1925 - H. Rider Haggard , author
1931 - David Belasco[?] , writer
1957 - Marie Vassilieff , artist
1987 - Rita Hayworth[?] , actress
1997 - Harry Blackstone Jr.[?] , magician
1998 - Frank Sinatra , singer, actor
2003 - Dave DeBusschere , NBA basketball player
2003 - Robert Stack , actor
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