By Nupur Apte
- Babe Ruth hits his 500th home run (1929)
- American astronomer, Asaph Hal,l discovers Deimos, the smaller and outer moon of Mars (1877)
- First civilian prisoners arrive at Alcatraz maximum security prison (1934)
- NATO takes command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan (2003)
- DJ Kool Herc hosts a party in the Bronx, often considered the birth of hip-hop (1973)
- The last U.S. ground combat forces leave South Vietnam (1972)
- The Weimar Constitution is signed into law, creating the first parliamentary democracy in Germany. (1919)
- Professional wrestler Hulk Hogan is born (1953)
- The first American abstract painter, Jackson Pollock, dies at 44 (1956)