1544 – Flemish painter Jan Matsys banished from Antwerp for religious beliefs
1911 – Andrew Carnegie forms Carnegie Corporation for scholarly and charitable works
1940 – Walt Disney begins serving as an informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI; his job is to report back information on Hollywood subversives.
1959 – Corinne Rottschaeffer of the Netherlands elected Miss World
1963 – Gordie Howe takes over NHL career goal lead at 545
1975 – Ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald and crew of 29 lost in storm on Lake Superior
1991 – Martina Navratilova ties Chris Evert with 157 pro tennis tournament wins
1993 – Slovakian government of Vladimír Mečiar forms
2013 – Spaniard Marc Márquez wins the 2013 MotoGP World Championship to become its youngest ever winner at 20
2015 – Portugal’s minority government is toppled by left-wing opposition 2 weeks after coming to power