1190: Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa drowns while crossing the Saleph River in modern-day Turkey, leading an army to Jerusalem during the Third Crusade

1786: A landslide dam on the Dadu River, caused by an earthquake ten days earlier, collapses and kills 100,000 in Sichuan province, China

1898: US Marines land in Cuba during the Spanish–American War

1916: Hashemite-led Arabs of the Hejaz rise up against the ruling Ottoman Empire in the Great Arab Revolt of World War I

1963: US Equal Pay Act signed into law by President John F. Kennedy

1977: Apple Computer ships its first Apple II computer

2003: The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover mission

Source: Onthisday.com