1685 – Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany.
1826 – The Rensselaer School in Troy, New York was incorporated. The school, known today as Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, became the first private technical school in the United States.
1868 – Writer Jane Cunningham Croly established the first club for professional women in New York City, Sorosis.
1946 – The Los Angeles Rams signed Kenny Washington, the first black player to join a National Football League team since 1933.
1960 – In the Black township of Sharpeville, near Johannesburg, South Africa, Afrikaner police open fire a group of unarmed Black demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180 with submachine-gun fire.
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1963 – Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco Bay closed.
1980 – In response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan the previous December, President Jimmy Carter announced a U.S. boycott of the upcoming Summer Olympics in Moscow.
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