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The forces of King Philip V of Spain overcame Catalan defenders to end the 13-month-long Siege of Barcelona during the War of the Spanish Succession.

During the American Revolution, forces under General Gorge Washington suffered a defeat at the hands of the British in the Battle of Brandywine near Wilmington, Delaware.

Alexander Hamilton was appointed Secretary of the Treasury.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated Boulder Dam – now known as Hoover Dam – by pressing a key in Washington to signal the start-up of the dam’s first hydroelectric generator in Nevada.

At the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons facility outside of Denver, Colorado, a fire broke out in the facility’s plutonium processing building, which sent plumes of radioactive fumes into the air. The threat of radioactivity was downplayed

The Beatles recorded their first single, Love Me Do.

President Salvador Allende of Chile was deposed by the military organized by the CIA. Augusto Pinochet assumed the presidency.

The St. Louis Cardinals beat the New York Mets, 4-3, in a 25-inning game at Shea Stadium in New York City.

Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds cracked career hit number 4,192 of Eric Show of the San Diego Padres, eclipsing the record held by Ty Cobb.  The Cincinnati Reds beat the San Diego Padres, 2-0, at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio.

In Scotland, voters approved the establishment of a parliament to run their domestic affairs, after 290 years of union with England.