1566 – Protestant Iconoclasm “Beeldenstorm” begins in European Low Countries
1822 – Antioch Syria, hit by Earthquake; about 20,000 die
1876 – 1st phone call between Brantford and Paris, Canada
1972 – Finnish runner Lasse Virén wraps up the 5,000/10,000m double at the Munich Olympics; runs Olympic record 13:26.42 for the 5k gold medal
1977 – About 100 white sympathisers joined evicted black squatters in a protest against the demolition of shanty dwellings outside Cape Town, South Africa
1985 – Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (every Beatle song) for $47 million
1992 – Soyuz TM-15 lands
1996 – Bob Dole picks Jack Kemp as his Republican VP running mate
2017 – Taylor Swift testifies that DJ David Mueller groped her in court in Denver, Colorado
2018 – Anti-government protests begin in Bucharest, Romania, with over 400 injured in clashes with police