421 - Venice is founded at twelve o'clock noon, according to legend.
1584 - English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia.
1655 - Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
1928 – Роден е Џим Ловел, американски астронаут.
1979 - The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
1992 - Soviet Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station.
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