1627 – Cardinal Richelieu begins siege of La Rochelle
1678 – Netherlands and France sign peace treaty in Nijmegen
1776 – American Revolutionary War: word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
1827 – Race riots in Cincinnati (1,000 blacks leave for Canada)
1897 – Automobile Club of Great Britain established (now: Royal Automobile Club)
1932 – A 5.1-kg (11.2-pound) chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
1954 – Dutch Indonesian Union breaks up
1970 – British Home Secretary Reginald Maulding threatens to impose direct rule on Northern Ireland if the agreed reform measures are not carried out
1990 – NASA’s Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus
2018 – US ground crew member steals an Alaskan Air plane from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, flies for over an hour chased by military jets before fatally crashing on Ketron Island