1632 - Britain grants Lord Baltimore rights to Chesapeake Bay area
1895 - First woman to earn a PhD in Physics from an American university, Caroline Willard Baldwin (25), receives her degree from Cornell University
1943 - Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) founded in Chicago
1968 - Austin Currie, then Nationalist Member of Parliament (MP) at Stormont, and other Irish civil rights activists, protest discrimination in the allocation of housing by 'squatting' (illegally occupying) in a house in Caledon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
2012 - A Syrian fighter pilot lands in Jordan and defects from the Syrian uprising

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1756 - Joseph Martin Kraus, German-Swedish composer, known as "the Swedish Mozart", conductor, and pedagogue, born in Miltenberg am Main, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1792)
1868 - Helen Miller Shepard, American philanthropist who established Hall of Fame, born in Manhattan, New York (d. 1938)
1894 - George Delacorte, American philanthropist and publisher (Dell Books), born in New York City (d. 1991)