1888 – The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated
1958 – Brooks Hall in Civic Center dedicated in San Francisco
1964 – “Anyone Can Whistle” closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 9 performances
1967 – Tom Stoppard’s play “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” debuts in London at the Old Vic
1968 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act
1972 – Benjamin L Hooks named to FCC
1983 – NASA launches RCA-F
1993 – 450 prisoners riot at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continue for ten days, citing grievances about prison conditions and the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis)
2001 – Detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, People’s Republic of China after a collision with an J-8 fighter are released
2012 – 8.6 magnitude earthquake and 8.2 aftershock occurs off the coast of Indonesia