1543 Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned Queen of Scots in the central Scottish town of Stirling
1776 Congress officially renames the country as the United States of America (from the United Colonies)
1817 Alexander Twilight, likely the first African American to graduate from a US college, receives a BA degree from Middlebury College
1861 Nurse Sally Tompkins is officially commissioned as an officer (and its only female officer) by the Confederate States Army
1914 First fully mechanized unit in the British Army is created, the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade
1993 Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization exchange letters of mutual recognition
1926 National Broadcasting Company (NBC) founded by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA)
1946 First "bug" in a computer program is discovered by a team of engineers, including Grace Hopper, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when a real-life moth is removed with tweezers from a relay and taped into the logbook
1956 Elvis Presley's first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show"
1971 Apple Records releases John Lennon's second solo studio album, "Imagine," in the US; it tops the charts in the US, UK, Australia, and three other countries
1972 Soviet Union beats the United States 51-50 in the most controversial game in international basketball history; with the US leading 50-49, the final 3 seconds are replayed three times until the Soviets finally win
2015 Queen Elizabeth II becomes Great Britain's longest-reigning monarch at 63 years and seven months, beating the previous record set by her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria
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