1901 – Chicago White Sox Frank Isbell strands record 11 teammate base runners
1914 – German battle cruiser Goeben reaches Dardanellen/Turkey joins Germany
1944 – Braves Red Barrett throws only 58 pitches to shut out Cincinnati Reds 2-0
1944 – US/French offensive at Alencon
1948 – Bradman scores 133* Aust v Lancashire, 216 mins, 17 fours
1950 – “Sunset Boulevard”, American film noir directed by Billy Wilder and starring William Holden and Gloria Swanson, premieres at Radio City Music Hall in NYC
1994 – Last British troops leave Hong Kong (been there since Sept 1841)
2016 – South Korean shooter Jin Jong-oh recovers from 7th place during the final to record an Olympic record 193.7 and win gold in men’s 50m pistol at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; first shooter to win 3 consecutive Olympic gold medals in one event
2018 – Omarosa Manigault Newman, former aide to US President Donald Trump, releases taped recordings of her firing from The White House
2019 – Financier Jeffrey Epstein found dead of an apparent suicide in his jail cell in New York, while awaiting trail for sex trafficking charges