1521-Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan is the first European to sight Guam in the western Pacific
1831-Edgar Allan Poe court-martialed and dismissed from West Point military academy for gross neglect of duty and disobedience of orders
1926-China asks for a seat on the Security council
1945-George Nissen of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, receives a patent for the first modern trampoline
1946-France recognizes Vietnam statehood within Indo-Chinese federation
1951-Trial of Julius Rosenberg and his wife Ethel Rosenberg begins for providing top-secret information to the Soviet Union
1967-Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilujeva approaches the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, India, and asks for political asylum
1970-A Catholic man is shot dead by British soldiers in Belfast, North Ireland
1992-The Michelangelo computer virus begins to take affect
2013-Microsoft is fined €561M ($731 million) by the Euro Commission for failing to respect an antitrust settlement to provide options to chose an alternative web browser