Events:
1565 St. Augustine, Florida, established. It is the oldest surviving European settlement in the United States.
1898 Caleb Bradham renames his carbonated soft drink Pepsi-Cola""."1963 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his famous I have a dream"" speech."1972 Mark Spitz gets his first of seven Olympic gold medals in swimming. Famous Birthdays:1958 Scott Hamilton (Gold medal figure skater)
1965 Shania Twain (Country Singer)1969 Jason Priestley (Actor)1969 Jack Black (Actor)1971 Janet Evans (Swimmer)1982 LeAnn Rimes (Country Singer)Archive:
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