2007 – Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone.

1969 – Stonewall riots begin in New York City, marking the start of the Gay Rights Movement.

1926 – Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.

1919 – The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending the state of war between Germany and the Allies of World War I.

1914 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by Bosnia Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip, the casus belli of World War I.

1846 – Adolphe Sax patents the saxophone

1971 – After only three years in business, rock promoter Bill Graham closes the Fillmore East in New York, New York, the "Church of Rock and Roll".

 black321 wrote: 
It's all relative, man.

1973 – The UpStairs Lounge arson attack takes place at a gay bar located on the second floor of the three-story building at 141 Chartres Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Thirty-two people die as a result of fire or smoke inhalation.

1374 – A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.

2013 – Nik Wallenda becomes the first man to successfully walk across the Grand Canyon on a tight rope.

1969 – IBM announces that effective January 1970 it will price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry.

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
turns out the church was right...since everything in the universe is moving away from everything else, the earth is the center of the universe. 

1969 – The Cuyahoga River catches fire in Cleveland, Ohio, drawing national attention to water pollution, and spurring the passing of the Clean Water Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.

1633 – The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after heated controversy.

1962 – The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency.

1822 – Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled "Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables".

1789 – Whiskey distilled from maize is first produced by American clergyman the Rev Elijah Craig. It is named Bourbon because Rev Craig lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky.

1967 – Venera program: Venera 4 is launched (it will become the first space probe to enter another planet's atmosphere and successfully return data).

1942 – Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.