An 1855 engraving of Samuel Colt
- 1642 – King Charles I of England sends soldiers to arrest members of Parliament, commencing England's slide into civil war.
- 1798 – After having been invested as Prince of Wallachia, Constantine Hangerli arrived in Bucharest to assume the throne.
- 1847 – American gun inventor Samuel Colt (pictured) made his first large sale of his revolvers to the Texas Rangers.
- 1912 – The Boy Scout Association was incorporated throughout the then British Empire by royal charter.
- 1936 – Billboard magazine published its first music hit parade.
- 1973 – Last of the Summer Wine, the longest running sitcom in the world, premiered as an episode of the BBC's Comedy Playhouse.
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