Other Events
1910 – The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated.
1922 – The first radio is introduced in the White House.
1924 – The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place.
1837 – Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate.
1952 – Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom.
1971 – The NASDAQ stock market index opens.
1996 – The massive Internet collaboration “24 Hours in Cyberspace” takes place.
Births
120 – Vettius Valens, Greek astrologer (d. 175)
412 – Proclus, Greek philosopher (d. 485)
1191 – Yaroslav II of Russia (d. 1246)
1291 – King Afonso IV of Portugal (d. 1357)
1405 – Constantine XI Palaiologos, last Byzantine Emperor (d. 1453)
1487 – Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1550)
