| Sofya Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician | |
| Aristotle Onassis, industrialist | |
| Edward Teller, fathered the H-bomb. | |
| Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian leader | |
| Chuck Berry, singer (Johnny B. Goode) | |
| Martin Luther King, Jr., dreamer (Nobel Peace Prize 1964) | |
| Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church | |
| British Museum opens | |
| Nootka Sound discovered by Capt. Cook | |
| Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis | |
| Dunbarton Bridge, 1st bridge in Bay Area, opens. | |
| World's largest office building, The Pentagon, is completed. | |
| Soyuz 5 launched | |
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