1789

Electors unanimously chose George Washington to be the first president of the United States.

1974

Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst, 19, was kidnapped in Berkeley by the radical Symbionese Liberation Army.

1997

A civil jury in Santa Monica found O.J. Simpson liable for the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman, ordering Simpson to pay $33.5 million to the victims’ families.