On this date in

768 Carloman I and Charlemagne were crowned kings of the Franks.

1003 Leif Erikson landed in Canada to become the first European known to set foot in North America.

1514 Louis XII of France married Mary Tudor.

1635 Roger Williams was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for speaking out against certain religious offenses

1701 The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) was chartered.

1776 The Mission San Francisco de Asis was founded.

1888 The Washington Monument was opened to the public.

1919 The Cincinnati Reds won the World Series, known for the Black Sox Scandal.

1930 Laura Ingalls became the first woman to fly across the United States.

1967 Che Guevara was executed a day after being captured in Bolivia.

1986 The musical "Phantom of the Opera" had its first performance in London.

Born on this date
Robert de Sorbon (1201-1274)
Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935)
Charles Walgreen (1873-1939)
Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944)
Bruce Catton (1899-1978)
Alastair Sim (1900-1976)
Walter O'Malley (1903-1979)
Jacques Tati (1907-1982)
E. Howard Hunt (1918-2007)
Lila Kedrova (1918-2000)
Johnny Stompanato (1925-1958)
John Lennon (1940-1980)
John Entwistle (1944-2002)
Savannah (1970-1994)

Died on this date
Helen Morgan (1900-1941)
Pope Pius XII (1876-1958)
Miriam Hopkins (1902-1972)
Oskar Schindler (1908-1974)
Jacques Brel (1929-1978)
Claire Boothe Luce (1903-1987)
Walter Kerr (1913-1996)
Dagmar (1921-2001)
Louis Nye (1913-2005)