1189: Third Crusade: Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan

1207: King John of England grants small town of Liverpool a charter (right to elect a mayor and aldermen)

1609: English explorer Henry Hudson is the first European to sail into Delaware Bay, naming it South Bay

1830: The first American-built locomotive, “Tom Thumb,” races a horse-drawn car from the Stockton and Stokes stagecoach company from Baltimore to Ellicott Mills; due to mechanical problems, the horse wins!

1845: Scientific American magazine publishes its first issue

1963: Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom civil rights march at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Source: Onthisday.com