1587: A second English colony is established on Roanoke Island off North Carolina, but it will vanish under mysterious circumstances
1816: Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron register at a Mont Blanc hotel; Byron lists his age as 100; Shelley gives his occupation as “Democrat, Philanthropist, Atheist” and his destination as “L’Enfer”
1934: John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents at the Biograph Theatre in Chicago
1941: George Clinton is born
1955: Willem Dafoe is born
1967: Carl Sandburg dies [poems]
1991: Police arrest Jeffrey Dahmer after finding the remains of eleven victims in his apartment in Milwaukee