1995U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O’Grady is rescued by U.S. Marines in Bosnia.
1969President Richard Nixon meets with President Thieu of South Vietnam to tell him 25,000 U.S. troops will pull out by August.
1968James Earl Ray, the alleged assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr., is captured at the London Airport.
1967Israeli airplanes attack the USS Liberty, a surveillance ship, in the Mediterranean, killing 34 Navy crewmen.
1953After being turned away at a local diner, 86-year-old African American activist Mary Church Terrell and civil rights groups score a major victory as Supreme Court rules against segregated lunch counters in Washington, D.C.
1947Sara Paretsky, detective novelist.
1942Andrew Weil, physician and author (Spontaneous Healing).
1939Herb Adderley, American football player.
1925Barbara Pierce Bush, First Lady to 41st President, George H. W. Bush.
1918Robert Preston, actor (The Music Man).
1916Francis Crick, British scientist who co-discovered of the structure of DNA.