** William B. Bankhead National Forest

** William of Ockham ( Church of England )

** Client: William Neilson Ltd.

** William Erasmus Darwin ( 1839 – 1914 ), eldest son of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

** Philippide ( Latin ) by William the Breton

** Gesta Regum Britanniae by William of Rennes ( Latin )

** Epigoniad by William Wilkie ( 1757 )

** Milton: a Poem by William Blake ( 1804 – 1810 )

** The Prelude by William Wordsworth

** The Wanderings of Oisin by William Butler Yeats ( 1889 )

** Paterson by William Carlos Williams ( composed c. 1940-1961 )

** William of Montevergine

** William of York

** Blessed William Joseph Chaminade

** William of Donjeon

** William of Gellone

** Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton announces his candidacy for the Republican Presidential nomination, as part of a ' stop-Goldwater ' movement.

** William Martens, American computer engineer

** William Bendix, American actor ( b. 1906 )

** William Redington Hewlett, American businessman ( b. 1913 )

** White supremacist John William King is found guilty of kidnapping and killing African American James Byrd Jr. by dragging him behind a truck for 2 miles ( 3 km ).

** William David " Dave " Sanders, sole teacher killed in Columbine High School massacre ( b. 1951 )

** William Powell, American actor ( b. 1892 )

** William Davison, secretary to Queen Elizabeth I of England ( b. c. 1541 )

** William Barclay, Scottish jurist ( b. 1546 )

** Physics-Clinton Joseph Davisson, George Paget Thomson

** Thomas Catesby Paget, Lord Paget ( 1689-1742 )

** 25px 1st Battalion

** Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading, the Attorney General

** David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, the Chancellor of the Exchequer

** Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, Postmaster General ; was falsely implicated.

** Afonso, 8th Count of Barcelos, 1st Duke of Braganza ( 1442 ).

** Ferdinand II, 3rd Duke of Braganza and 1st Duke of Guimarães ( 1475 ).

** John I, 6th Duke of Braganza and 1st Duke of Barcelos ( 1562 ).

** 1st Foreign Regiment ( 1 < sup > e </ sup > RE ), based in Aubagne

** 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment ( 1 < sup > e </ sup > REC ), based in Orange, Vaucluse ( armoured troops )

** 1st Foreign Engineer Regiment ( 1 < sup > e </ sup > REG ), based in Laudun

** Mishnaic Hebrew – Post Temple Roman Era ( 1st through 4th Century CE )

** Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

** Frederic Maugham, 1st Viscount Maugham, English statesman, the eldest son of the previous

** Adiabene ( 1st to 2nd c. AD )

** Hatra ( 1st to 2nd c. AD )

** ( formerly MV 1st Lt. Baldomero Lopez )

** ( formerly MV 1st Lt. Jack Lummus )

** The United States Post Office Department ( later renamed the United States Postal Service ) begins the 3rd regular airmail service in the world ( between New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, DC ), the 1st being from Allahabad to Naini Junction in India on the 18th February 1911 and the 2nd being from London to Windsor Castle on the 22nd June 1911.

** Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland ( d. 1543 )

** WWII: At Camp Hood, Texas, future baseball star and 1st Lt. Jackie Robinson is arrested and later court-martialed for refusing to move to the back of a segregated U. S. Army bus.

** Hermann Göring is captured by the United States Army. Marines of 1st Marine Division Battle of Okinawa | fighting on Okinawa, May 1945.

** Nigeria becomes a republic ; The 1st Republican Constitution is established

** Sylvanus Olympio, 1st President of Togo, assassination ( b. 1902 )

** Jo Bonner, American U. S. Representative for Alabama's 1st congressional district

** Tuanku Abdul Rahman ibni Almarhum Tuanku Muhammad, 1st Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, dies in office.