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The English installed their own form of municipal government in what used to be the settlement of New Amsterdam – which the English renamed to New York.

The state of Virginia adopted a Bill of Rights – the first colonial legislature to do so.

In London, England, World Anti-Slavery Convention refused to recognize United States women as delegates. In protest, some American gentlemen delegates refused to participate, and joined the women in the balcony, including William Lloyd Garrison (abolitionist and journalist) and Charles Lenox Remond (African-American orator, activist and abolitionist).

John Lee Richmond for the Worcester Brown Stockings pitched the first perfect game against the Cleveland Blues.

Philippine nationalists declared independence from Spain.

The National Baseball Hall of Fame was dedicated in Cooperstown, New York.

One of Hollywood’s costliest failures, “Cleopatra,” starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Rex Harrison, premiered in New York.

Civil Rights leader Medgar Evers was shot to death in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi. He was 36 years old.

The British government announced that each of the Beatles would be made an MBE (Member of the British Empire) by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace later in the year.

The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously struck down state laws prohibiting interracial marriages.

The movie Rosemary’s Baby was released.

The movie The Raiders of the Lost Ark was released.

One million people demonstrated in New York City’s Central Park against nuclear weapons and for an end to the cold war arms race.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist and historian, was awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation for his humanitarian work by President Putin.