On this date in

1781 Los Angeles was founded.

1886 Geronimo, who fought the United States for 25 years for encroaching on Indian land, surrendered.

1888 George Eastman patented his roll-film camera under the registered name Kodak.

1908 Director Edward Dmytryk, one of the blacklisted Hollywood Ten, was born.

1951 President Harry Truman addressed the nation from a conference in San Francisco in the first live coast-to-coast television broadcast.

1957 Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus summoned the National Guard to prevent nine black students from entering Little Rock's Central High School; Ford Motor Company introduced the Edsel.

1972 Mark Spitz became the first person to win seven gold medals in a single Olympics.

2002 Kelly Clarkson was named the first "American Idol."

2006 Steve Irwin, popularly known as the "Crocodile Hunter," died from a stingray's barb that pierced his chest.