1. 1919 - President Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke, which leaves him partially paralyzed
2. 1925 - London's first red double-decker buses goes into service
3. 1944 - The Warsaw Uprising ends with the surrender of the surviving Polish rebels to German forces
4. 1950 - The Peanuts comic strip, by Charles M. Schultz, appears in newspapers for the first time
5. 1967 - Thurgood Marshall takes the oath of office and becomes the first African American member of the US Supreme Court
6. 1968 - More than 25 people die during a gun battle in Mexico City just 10 days before the Olympics Games are due to begin
7. 1968 - A woman gives birth to six babies in what is being hailed as the first recorded case of live sextuplets in Britain
8. 1974 - Experiments on monkeys in America reveal how smoking cannabis can cause brain damage
9. 1983 - Neil Kinnock becomes the leader of the Labour party, with Roy Hattersley deputy
10. 2009 - The 2016 Summer Olympics are awarded to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil
11. 2011 - Over 700 Occupy Wall Street protesters are arrested while trying to cross the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City
Source: BBC, Wikipedia, historyorb.com, infoplease.com, history.co.uk, brainyhistory.com, on-this-day.com, thepeopleshistory
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