1910 - 1st Israeli kibbutz Deganya Alef, is founded at Umm Juni, Ottoman Empire
1939 - NHL Babe Seibert Memorial Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 5-3
1942 - Branch Rickey is named president and general manager of Brooklyn Dodgers
2006 - Lula da Silva is elected President of Brazil, defeating Geraldo Alckmin in the second round
2008 - The 10th-century Archimedes Palimpsest, featuring lost works of Archimedes, is made freely available on the web 10 years after being bought by an unknown tech figure
1934 - (Willem) "Pim" Jacobs, Dutch jazz pianist, composer (with wife Rita Reys - Marriage in Modern Jazz), and TV presenter (Music for Everyone), born in Hilversum, Netherlands (d. 1996)
1940 - Galen Weston, English-Canadian multi-millionaire industrialist, born in Marlow, England
1941 - Brian Yuile, New Zealand cricket all-rounder (17 Tests, 34 wickets, 1 x 50; Central Districts), born in Palmerston North, New Zealand
1944 - Fausto Leali, Italian entertainer, born in Nuvolento, Brescia, Italy
1980 - Ben Foster, American actor (Hell or High Water, 3:10 to Yuma), born in Boston, Massachusetts
1911 - Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-American publisher (St Louis Post-Dispatch, NY World) and Democratic politician whose bequest founded the Columbia School of Journalism and the Pulitzer Prize, dies at 64
1936 - Ramiro de Maeztu, Spanish writer (Don Quixote and Celestine), dies at 61
1992 - Adrienne Canivez, wife of Victor of Vriesland, dies
1996 - J. Edward Day, 55th U.S. Postmaster General (1961), dies at 82
2005 - Lloyd Bochner, Canadian actor (Point Blank, Dynasty, Batman), dies of cancer at 81
Nearly 40 years after he became the first American to orbit the Earth, Senator John Hershel Glenn, Jr., is launched into space again as a payload specialist aboard the space shuttle Discovery.