1809: Alfred Tennyson is born
1911: Lucille Ball is born [vid: vitameatavegemin]
1938: Paul Bartel is born
1943: Jon Postel is born
1945: The United States drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima [poem]
1961: Russian cosmonaut Gherman Titov spends a day in space
1970: Yippies invade Disneyland
1988: Tompkins Square Park Police Riot
1991: “I promised to post a short summary of the WorldWideWeb project. Mail me with any queries.”
1996: NASA announces the discovery of evidence of primitive life on Mars