1963 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded by Lee Harvey Oswald, who also kills Dallas Police officer J. D. Tippit after fleeing the scene. U.S Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as the 36th President of the United States afterwards.

1969 – The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI.

1959 – American disc jockey Alan Freed, who had popularized the term "rock and roll" and music of that style, is fired from WABC-AM radio over allegations he had participated in the payola scandal.

1905 – Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.

1877 – Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.

1820 – An 80-ton sperm whale attacks and sinks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America. (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story.)

1971 – Intel releases the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.

1943 – The Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps".

1952 – The first regular UK Singles Chart published by the New Musical Express.

1851 – Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, is published in the USA.

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
I was an expert at DOS. And I found that made understanding and working with Windows much easier.

 SeriousLee wrote: 
My first IBM clone machine had two 5.25" floppy drives; one for your application and one to store your files. Oh, and 128kb of RAM.

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
Don't remember W1.0 but I do remember W2.0.

With my 1200 baud modem hooked up. I may even have that laying around here somewhere.

1989 – Germans begin to tear down the Berlin Wall.

1983 – Bill Gates introduces Windows 1.0.

1975 – The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.

2016 – United States Presidential Election: Donald Trump is elected as 45th president of the United States.

1923 – Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.

1994 – WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world's first internet radio broadcast.

1967 – Carl B. Stokes is elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city.