1790 - Congress declares the city of Washington in the District of Columbia, the permanent capital of the United States
1924 - NY Giants George Kelly is 1st to hit HRs in 6 cons games
1942 - French police arrest 13,152 Jews in Paris
1995 - Red Buttons' one-man show "Buttons on Broadway" closes at Ambassador Theater, NYC, after 33 performances
2017 - Kawhi Leonard re-signs with the San Antonio Spurs to a five-year, $90 million contract
1925 - Cal Tjader, American Latin jazz vibraphonist, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1982)
1948 - Rubén Blades, Panamanian singer and actor, born in Panama City, Panama
1949 - Ray Majors, British rock guitarist (Mott the Hoople, 1975-76; British Lions, 1977-78), born in the UK (d. 2022)
1966 - Mike Horn, South African explorer, 1st to reach North Pole without dog or motorized transport, born in Johannesburg, South Africa
1980 - Adam Scott, Australian golfer (US Masters 2013), born in Adelaide, South Australia
1736 - Thomas Yalden, poet/fable writer, dies
1879 - Edward Deas Thomson, British-Australian politician, chancellor of the University of Sydney, and member of the Legislative Council of NSW, dies at 79
1979 - James F Mcintyre, archbishop of Los Angeles, dies at 93
1991 - Dwight Weist, Radio actor and film narrator (Radio Days), dies at 81
2019 - John Paul Stevens, American lawyer and 103rd Supreme Court Justice (1975-2010), dies from complications of a stroke at 99
Disneyland, Walt Disney’s metropolis of nostalgia, fantasy and futurism, opens its doors in Anaheim, California.
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