1190-Third Crusade: Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa drowns while crossing the Saleph River (modern Turkey) leading an army to Jerusalem
1786-A landslide dam on the Dadu River caused by earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China
1898-U.S. Marines land in Cuba during the Spanish–American War
1916-Hashemite-led Arabs of the Hejaz rise up against the ruling Ottoman Empire in the Great Arab Revolt of World War I
1963-U.S. Equal Pay Act signed into law by President John F. Kennedy
1977-Apple Computer ships its first Apple II computers
2003-The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission