1752 – 1st US fire insurance policy issued in Philadelphia
1919 – Cincinnati Reds Hod Eller no-hits St Louis Cards, 6-0
1928 – General Electric opens 1st TV-station (Schenectady, NY)
1967 – Great Britain, Ireland and Denmark apply for membership of the EEC
1972 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1985 – Booby trap bomb kills 86 people in India
1985 – 56 die and at least 265 are injured at Bradford City football ground in the worst fire in English football history
2000 – India’s population officially reaches 1 billion – Astha Arora named India’s billionth baby
2007 – Pope Benedict XVI canonizes the first Brazilian-born saint, Frei Galvão
2018 – Mass murder-suicide in Margaret River, Australia, grandfather shoots six members of his family and himself