1607 - The first permanent English settlement in their holy Jamestown (Jamestown), Virginia
1643 - Louis XIV became King of France at age 4.
1787 - A meeting of the 55 delegates in Philadelphia in order drafting of the US Constitution.
1811 - Nezavisnots Paraguay - NATIONAL DAY.
1861 - Meteor Canellas (859 grams) of type "chondrite" falls to near Barcelona.
1948 - Israel declares independence from Britain.
1955 - Potshishan's Warsaw Pact by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania.
1986 - Dutch Institute for War Documentation published the diary of Anne Frank.
