1715: John Flamsteed observes Uranus for sixth time. Admit it, after the third time, you were letting him.
1910: Teddy Roosevelt visits Amsterdam; declares the local hashish "Like, Bully, Dude..."
1945: In a heavily fortified bunker deep below besieged Berlin, Adolf Hitler marries his long-time partner Eva Braun and designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor (in charge of Germany, not as husband to Braun).
1988: Burt Reynolds & Loni Anderson marry.
1968: The musical Hair opens on Broadway.
1992: Riots erupt in Los Angeles, following the acquittal of police officers charged in the beating of Rodney King.
1978: Japanese adventurer Naomi Uemura, traveling by sled dog, is first person to reach the North Pole alone; although we only have his and the sled dogs' word for it.
1990: Wrecking cranes began tearing down Berlin Wall; people watching on both sides say, “Gut geht die Nachbarschaft.”*
2004: Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production.
*"Well, there goes the neighborhood."