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1871 ~ The National Rifle Association was granted a charter by the state of New York.

1887 ~ Birthday of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.

1929 ~ Death of Herman Hollerith, Statistician.

1960 ~ Birthday of RuPaul, American drag entertainer.

1968 ~ Birthday of Amber Michaels, German Porn Actress.

1970 ~ In one of the greatest successes of the Soviet lunar exploration program, The USSR landed an unmanned, remote-controlled vehicle on the moon, the Lunokhod 1.

1970 ~ Douglas Engelbart received a patent for the first computer mouse.

1979 ~ Death of John Glascock, British bassist (Jethro Tull).

1997 ~ An Islamic extremist group killed 60 tourists at Luxor, Egypt.

2003 ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger was sworn in as the 38th governor of California.