Source: HistoryNet.com
1096: Crusaders under Peter the Hermit reach Sofia in Hungary.
1954: President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposes a highway modernization program, with costs to be shared by federal and state governments.
1957: The U.S. surgeon general, Leroy E. Burney, reports that there is a direct link between smoking and lung cancer.
1984: Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale chooses Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate.