1649 – Massacre of Drogheda, Ireland: Oliver Cromwell kills 3,000 Royalists
1937 – US National Championship Women’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Anita Lizana of Chile becomes first Latin American to win a major; beats Jadwiga Jędrzejowska of Poland 6-4, 6-2
1951 – Igor Stravinsky’s opera “The Rake’s Progress,” with libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, premieres at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Italy
1966 – Johnny Miller becomes the first New York Yankee to hit a home run in his first MLB at-bat; his second home run comes in his final MLB at-bat in 1969
1967 – US Surveyor 5 makes the first chemical analysis of lunar material
1971 – US Open Women’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: In an all-American final, Billie Jean King beats doubles partner Rosemary Casals 6-4, 7-6
1994 – 46th Emmy Awards: Frasier, Picket Fences, and Kelsey Grammer win
2019 – Water is detected for the first time on a planet outside our solar system, on exoplanet K2-18b, 110 light-years away; findings are published in “Nature Astronomy”