Today:
96: Roman Emperor Domitian was assassinated, leading to the appointment of Nerva as his successor.
1793: The first cornerstone of the United States Capitol building was laid by President George Washington.
1810: Chile declared its independence from Spain.
1851: The first issue of The New-York Daily Times, which would later become The New York Times, was published.
1895: Booker T. Washington delivered his influential “Atlanta Compromise” speech.
1927: The Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System, which later became CBS, went on the air for the first time.
1947: The United States Air Force was established as a separate branch of the military.
1961: United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld was killed in a plane crash while on a peace mission in Africa.
1970: Legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix died in London at the age of 27.
1998: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), responsible for overseeing the internet’s domain name system, was founded.