1965 - US soap opera "Days of Our Lives" premieres
1977 - Harvey Milk becomes the first openly gay person elected to public office in California, winning a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors
1984 - NASA astronaut Anna Lee Fisher becomes the first mother to go into orbit when she flies on the STS-51A mission
1989 - Hong Kong's MTR Lam Tin Station comes into service
2018 - Authorities report more than 150 people have been killed in week-long assault by government forces on port of Hudaydah in Yemen

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1904 - Horace Mann Bond, American educator, administrator (President of Lincoln University (Pa), 1945-57), and historian, born in Nashville, Tennessee (d. 1972)
1921 - Douglas Townsend, American composer, born in Manhattan, New York City (d. 2012)
1924 - Joe Flynn, American character actor (McHale's Navy - "Capt. Binghamton; The Love Bug; The Rescuers), born in Youngstown, Ohio (d. 1974)
1968 - Parker Posey, American actress (Party Girl, Superman Returns), born in Baltimore, Maryland