Events
• 1709 - Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
• 1759 - General James Wolfe begins the siege of Quebec.
• 1893 - Crash of the New York Stock Exchange.
• 1898 - The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
• 1967 - The world's first ATM is installed in Enfield, London.
• 1984 - Pierre Elliott Trudeau wins the Albert Einstein Peace Prize.
• 1985 - U.S. Route 66 ceases to be an official U.S. highway.
• 2001 - Pope John Paul II beatifies 28 Ukrainian Greek Catholics, including 27 martyrs most of whom were killed by the Soviet secret police. Beatification takes place at the service in Lviv, western Ukraine during his first visit to this country.
• 2003 - The United States National Do Not Call Registry, formed to combat unwanted telemarketing calls and administered by the Federal Trade Commission, enrolls almost three-quarters of a million phone numbers on its first day.
Births
• 1869 - Emma Goldman, anarchist and feminist (d. 1940)
• 1880 - Helen Keller, American deaf and blind activist (d. 1968)
• 1905 - Armand Mondou, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1976)
• 1923 - Jacques Berthier, French composer (d. 1994)
• 1938 - Shirley Anne Field, British actress
• 1938 - Kathryn Beaumont, British voice actress
• 1942 - Bruce Johnston, American musician (The Beach Boys)
• 1942 - Frank Mills, Canadian pianist and composer
• 1949 - Vera Wang, American fashion designer
• 1951 - Mary McAleese, President of Ireland
• 1959 - Dan Jurgens, American comic book writer
• 1975 - Tobey Maguire, American actor
• 1979 - John Warne, American musician (Relient K; Ace Troubleshooter)
• 1980 - Kevin Pietersen, English cricketer
• 1986 - Drake Bell, musician/ songwriter /actor, best known for his role on Nickelodeon's Drake & Josh
• 1989 - Matthew Lewis, English actor
• 1991 - Madylin Sweeten, American actress
Deaths
• 1991 - Klaas Bruinsma, Dutch drug lord (b. 1953)
• 1996 - Albert R. Broccoli, American film producer (b. 1909)
• 2001 - Jack Lemmon, American actor (b. 1925)
• 2004 - George Patton IV, American general (b. 1923)
• 2005 - Domino Harvey, English-born bounty hunter (b. 1969)
• 2006 - Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, Mexican serial killer, known as "The Railway Killer" (b. 1959)
Holidays and observances
• National HIV Testing Day in United States