1. 1910 - Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first US President to fly aboard an airplane - with Archie Hoxsey, an aviator for the Wright Brothers
2. 1937 - Sir Bobby Charlton is born
3. 1939 - U.S. President Roosevelt is presented with a letter from Albert Einstein that urged him to develop the U.S. atomic program rapidly
4. 1962 - Pope John XXIII opens Vatican II, and convenes the first ecumenical council in 92 years
5. 1968 - Apollo 7, NASA's first three-man space mission, is launched from Cape Canaveral
6. 1974 - Harold Wilson's Labour government wins the UK General Election
7. 1975 - The comedy-variety show Saturday Night Live premiers with George Carlin as the host
8. 1975 - Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham marry in Fayetteville, AR
9. 1982 - The Mary Rose, flagship of King Henry VIII, rises to the surface after 437 years at the bottom of the Solent
10. 1987 - A huge sonar search for the Loch Ness monster ends in failure
11. 2002 - The US Senate joined the House of Representatives in approving the use of America's military against Iraq
Source: BBC, Wikipedia, historyorb.com, infoplease.com, history.co.uk, brainyhistory.com, on-this-day.com, thepeopleshistory
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