- 1807 – Robert E. Lee is born.
- 1809 – Edgar Allan Poe is born.
- 1903 – A new bicycle race, the “Tour de France,” is announced.
- 1905 – Oveta Culp Hobby is born. She later becomes the second woman in the U.S. Cabinet (20 years after Frances Perkins), first Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (1953) and is awarded the Distinguished Medal of Service for her work as Director of the Women’s Army Corps (1945).
- 1920 – The American Civil Liberties Union is founded.
- 1946 – Dolly Parton is born.
- 1955 – First presidential news conference is filmed for TV, with President Eisenhower.
- 1966 – Indira Gandhi becomes India’s prime minister and the country’s first female head of government,
- 2012 – Freestyle skier Sarah Burke dies after accident in Park City.
