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Events

1607 – Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony.
1796 – Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination.
1804 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begins its historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.
1862 – Adolphe Nicole of Switzerland patents the chronograph.
1878 – Vaseline is first sold (registered trademark for petroleum jelly) .
1904 – St Louis hosts the first Olympic Games to be held in the United States.
1935 – Los Angeles' Griffith Planetarium opens, 3rd in the United States.
1948 – Israel is declared to be an independent state and a provisional government is established. Immediately after the declaration, Israel is attacked by the neighboring Arab states, triggering the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
1955 – Cold War: Eight communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
1968 – Beatles announce formation of Apple Corp.
1973 – Human Space Flight: Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched. It is the last launch of the Saturn V rocket.
1973 – The final episode of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In airs on NBC.
1974 – Symbionese Liberation Army destroyed in shoot-out, 6 killed.
1998 – The final episode of Seinfeld airs on NBC.

Births

1686 – Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist (d. 1736)
1904 – Hans Albert Einstein, American professor (d. 1973)
1928 – Will "Dub" Jones, American singer (The Coasters) (d. 2000)
1936 – Bobby Darin, American singer (d. 1973)
1940 – Troy Shondell, American singer
1944 – George Lucas, American film director
1952 – David Byrne, Scottish-born American musician (Talking Heads)
1952 – Robert Zemeckis, American film director
1961 – Tim Roth, English actor
1962 – C. C. DeVille, American musician (Poison)
1969 – Cate Blanchett, Australian actress
1971 – Sofia Coppola, American director
1984 – Mark Zuckerberg, American internet entrepreneur(creator of Facebook)

Deaths

1940 – Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-born anarchist (b. 1869)
1982 – Hugh Beaumont, American actor (b. 1909)
1987 – Rita Hayworth, American actress (b. 1918)
1993 – William Randolph Hearst Jr., American newspaper magnate (b. 1908)
1997 – Harry Blackstone Jr., American magician (b. 1934)
1998 – Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor (b. 1915)
2003 – Robert Stack, American actor (b. 1919)

Observances

Roman Catholic Feast day for St. Corona