1310 – Fifty-four members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake in France for being heretics
1911 – The United States becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty
1926 – Airship Norge leaves Spitsbergen for 1st air crossing of Arctic Ocean
1950 – Belgium mine disaster at Borinage, 39 die
1968 – Toronto Transit Commission opens the largest expansion of its Bloor-Danforth Line, going to Scarborough in the east, Etobicoke in the west
1970 – Henry Marrow is murdered in a violent racially-motivated crime in Oxford, North Carolina.
1988 – France performs nuclear test
1991 – NHL Prince of Wales Conference Final: Pittsburgh Penguins beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 2
2015 – Record price for a work of art at auction: Picasso’s The Women of Algiers (Version ‘O’) sells for US$179.3 million at Christies in New York
2018 – Mass murder-suicide in Margaret River, Australia, grandfather shoots six members of his family and himself