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Events
- 1868 – The city of Reno, Nevada, is founded.
- 1887 – Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
- 1945 – World War II: Hermann Göring is captured by the United States Army.
- 1950 – L. Ron Hubbard publishes his book on Dianetics, entitled "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health".
- 1960 – The U.S. FDA announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill.
- 1961 – Jim Gentile of the Baltimore Orioles becomes the first player in baseball history to hit grand slams in consecutive innings.
- 1965 – Pianist Vladimir Horowitz gave his first public recital since 1953, at Carnegie Hall.
- 1965 – Bob Dylan played the first of two sold–out performances at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
- 1970 – Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 75,000 to 100,000 war protesters demonstrate in front of the White House.
- 1974 – Watergate Scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard M. Nixon.
- 1980 – In Florida, Liberian freighter SS Summit Venture hits the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay sending 35 people (most in a bus) to a watery death as a 1,400–foot section of the bridge collapses.
- 1980 – In Norco, California, five masked gunman hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot–out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. Two of the gunman and one police officers was killed while thirty–three police and civilian vehicles were destroyed in the chase.