On this day in 1799, French soldiers uncovered the Rosetta Stone in Fort Julien, near the Egyptian port city of Rashid.
On this day in 1910, in his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gave a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
On this day in 1997, American spree killer Andrew Cunanan gunned down fashion designer Gianni Versace in Miami, Florida.