1797 – Spanish Mission San José founded by Franciscan Padre Fermin Francisco de Lasuen at the Ohlone Village of Oroysom in Alta California (now Freemont, California)
1864 – The Battle of Trevilian Station, the bloodiest and largest all-cavalry battle of the American Civil War, begins in Louisa County, Virginia
1951 – Mozambique becomes an oversea province of Portugal
1966 – French and German media mistakenly report death of Roger Daltry
1976 – Beatles “Rock and Roll Music” compilation LP is released in USA
1986 – “Blacke’s Magic” last airs on NBC-TV
1996 – Exxon states that it will begin work on its $15-billion Sakhalin I oil and natural gas development in Russia’s Far East
1996 – Bob Dole, (Sen-R-KS), resigns from US senate to run for president
2017 – Japan passes law allowing Emperor Akihito to abdicate
2019 – “The New York Times” reveals an estimated 500,000 song titles, including masters of Chuck Berry, Louis Armstrong, and Ella Fitzgerald, lost in 2008 warehouse fire on Universal backlot in Los Angeles