1791 – D.C. resident Benjamin Banneker published his first almanac.
1812 – The USS Constitution defeated the British frigate Guerriere off Nova Scotia during the War of 1812.
1909 – The first race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway was held, on an unpaved oval.
1918 – “Yip! Yip! Yaphank,” a musical revue by Irving Berlin featuring Army recruits from Camp Upton in Yaphank, N.Y., opened on Broadway.
1929 – The radio comedy program “Amos ‘n’ Andy,” starring Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, made its debut on the NBC Blue Network.
1976 – President Gerald Ford won the Republican presidential nomination at the party’s convention in Kansas City, Mo.
1982 – Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the second woman to be launched into space.
2004 – Google stock begins trading on Nasdaq at $85 per share.
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Former U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson is 66.
Former President Bill Clinton is 62.
Tipper Gore, wife of former Vice President Al Gore, is 60.
