1903

Wilbur and Orville Wright of Dayton, Ohio, conducted the first successful manned, powered airplane flights near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, using their experimental craft, the Wright Flyer.

1933

In the inaugural NFL championship football game, the Chicago Bears defeated the New York Giants, 23-21, at Wrigley Field.

1944

The U.S. Army’s Western Defense Command rescinded orders to incarcerate people of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast during World War II; more than 110,000 men, woman and children of Japanese ancestry, about two-thirds of whom were American citizens, had been forced into camps and held by armed guards following a February 1942 executive order by President Franklin Roosevelt.

1975

Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme was sentenced in Sacramento to life in prison for her attempt on the life of President Gerald R. Ford. (She was paroled in August 2009.)

Birthdays

Actor Armin Mueller-Stahl is 94. Pope Francis is 88. Actor Ernie Hudson is 79. Comedian-actor Eugene Levy is 78. Rock singer Paul Rodgers is 75. Actor Bill Pullman is 71. Filmmaker Peter Farrelly is 68. Rock musician Mike Mills (R.E.M.) is 66. Country singer Tracy Byrd is 58. Actor Laurie Holden is 55. Actor Claire Forlani is 53. Actor Milla Jovovich is 49.