168 die in the Oklahoma City bombing
Timothy McVeigh, the mastermind behind the attack, was executed on June 11, 2001. The motives for the bombing, which also killed 19 babies and children, remain somewhat unclear.
The first installment of The Simpsons is aired
The hugely popular animated sitcom debuted on the Tracey Ullman Show in the form of one-minute shorts.
The Soviet Union launches the world’s first manned space station
Salyut 1 was 23 meters long and offered 100 cubic meters of pressurized space.
The American Revolutionary War begins
The Battles of Lexington and Concord marked the beginning of the armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and 13 colonies of British North America. The war resulted in U.S. independence.
- 1987 Maria Sharapova
Russian tennis player - 1978 James Franco
American actor, director, producer, screenwriter - 1952 Alexis Argüello
Nicaraguan boxer, politician - 1937 Joseph Estrada
Filipino actor, producer, politician, 13th President of the Philippines - 1933 Jayne Mansfield
American model, actress, singer
- 2004 John Maynard Smith
English biologist - 1967 Konrad Adenauer
German politician, Chancellor of West Germany - 1914 Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, mathematician, scientist - 1882 Charles Darwin
English scientist, theorist - 1824 Lord Byron
English poet
