1386 – Henry V, a former king of England, is born
1620 – The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, England, carrying pilgrims to North America
1810 – Miguel Hidalgo issues the Grito de Dolores, marking the start of Mexican independence
1869 – Tom Morris scores golf’s first recorded hole-in-one
1920 – A bomb explodes in a horse-drawn wagon outside the J.P. Morgan bank on Wall Street in New York City, killing 38 people
1953 – 20th Century Fox premieres The Robe, the very first film released in CinemaScope, changing the cinematic landscape forever
1997 – Apple Computer Inc. names co-founder Steve Jobs as interim CEO
2014 – NASA awards multi-billion-dollar commercial contracts to Boeing and SpaceX to develop spacecraft to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station