1904 – Battle of the Yellow Sea: Japanese fleet prevented Russians breaking out of Port Arthur
1906 – Pope Pius X bans Associations cults
1935 – 3rd Venice Film Festival opens
1937 – 5th Venice Film Festival opens
1941 – FDR and Churchill’s 2nd meeting at Placentia, Newfoundland
1954 – At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for the St. Lawrence Seaway is held.
1964 – WJSP TV channel 28 in Columbus, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 – Don Sutton breaks his 13-game losing streak to Cubs with a 4-2 win
1978 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya
1990 – NASA’s Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus