- 1444 – In their rebellion against the Ottoman Empire, Albanians led by Skanderbeg routed the Ottoman forces in the Battle of Torvioll.
- 1613 – The original Globe Theatre in London burned to the ground after a cannon employed for special effects misfired during a performance of William Shakespeare's Henry VIII and ignited the theatre's roof.
- 1914 – During the second day of the anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo, numerous buildings owned by ethnic Serbs were vandalized and looted.
- 1967 – Actress Jayne Mansfield (pictured), her boyfriend Sam Brody, and their driver were killed in a car accident outside of New Orleans, while her children Miklós, Zoltán, and Mariska Hargitay escaped with only minor injuries.
- 2007 – Apple Inc. released the first generation iPhone, which revolutionized the smartphone industry and made the company one of the world's most valuable publicly traded companies.
Óláfr Guðrøðarson (d. 1153) · Thomas Dunn English (b. 1819) · Elisabet Ney (d. 1907)
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