1381: During the Peasants’ Revolt, thousands of peasants march into London and begin burning and looting the city
1865: William Butler Yeats is born [poems] [society]
1926: Paul Lynde is born [vid: Kiss]
1942: The US Office of War Information is created
1966: The Miranda v. Arizona decision is issued by the US Supreme Court
1971: The New York Times begins publishing sections of the “Pentagon Papers”
1983: The unmanned US space probe Pioneer 10 becomes the first spacecraft to leave the solar system