Indonesian soldier, politician, 2nd President of Indonesia
English biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate
Belgian tennis player
American architect, designed the Price Tower, Fallingwater
American rapper, producer, director, fashion designer
Islamic prophet
Gabonese politician, President of Gabon
English/American theorist, author
American baseball player
British mountaineer
Attila the Hun, leader of the Huns, invaded Italy with his army, sacking many cities and causing widespread destruction. His invasion was eventually halted at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains in modern-day France.
Viking raiders from Norway attacked the monastery on Lindisfarne Island, off the northeast coast of England. The attack shocked Christian Europe and marked the beginning of the Viking Age.
King Richard I of England arrived at Acre in modern-day Israel to join the Siege of Acre during the Third Crusade. His military campaigns in the Holy Land would earn him the nickname "Richard the Lionheart."
The Laki volcano in southern Iceland began an 8-month eruption, releasing poisonous gases that killed approximately 10,000 people and caused widespread famines throughout Asia and Europe.
James Madison, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, introduced a proposed Bill of Rights in the US House of Representatives. The Bill of Rights would eventually be added to the US Constitution in 1791.
The brightest nova since Kepler's nova of 1604 was discovered in the constellation Aquila. Novae are stars that suddenly increase in brightness and then slowly fade away over several months.
English author George Orwell's dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, is published. The book's portrayal of a totalitarian society and its warnings about the dangers of government surveillance have made it one of the most influential works of 20th-century literature.
Associated Press photographer Nick Út took the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph known as the "Napalm Girl." The photo showed a group of Vietnamese children, including 9-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc, running from a napalm attack during the Vietnam War. The photo became a powerful symbol of the brutality of war.
The New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987 prohibited nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed ships from entering New Zealand's waters. New Zealand was the first country to legislate towards a nuclear-free zone in the 1950s, and the act of 1987 solidified its commitment to peace and disarmament.
American inventor Herman Hollerith patented his punch card calculator, a machine that used punched cards to process large amounts of data quickly. Hollerith's invention would eventually lead to the development of modern computing and the founding of the technology company IBM.