843 – Treaty of Verdun: Brothers Lotharius I, Louis the German and Charles the Bald divide France
1627 – Cardinal Richelieu begins siege of La Rochelle
1897 – Automobile Club of Great Britain established (now: Royal Automobile Club)
1936 – First time the Olympic cycling road race is conducted as a mass start event with Frenchmen Robert Charpentier and Guy Lapébie taking gold and silver, and France winning the teams gold medal
1943 – Adolf Hitler watches a lynching of allied pilots
1981 – Coca-Cola Bottling Co agrees to pump $34 million into black business
1984 – Ian Ferguson of New Zealand wins 2 canoeing gold medals in the one day taking the K-1 500 and K-2 500 (with Paul MacDonald) at the LA Olympics; wins K-4 1000 the next day
1988 – UN estimates Asia’s population hits 3 billion
1989 – A’s bat out of order against White Sox in 3rd inning
1989 – Australia 0-301 at end of day one, 5th Test Cricket at Trent Bridge