1229 – Queen Blanche of Castile and Earl Raymond VII of Toulouse sign peace
1557 – Cuenca is founded in Ecuador
1857 – French novelist Gustave Flaubert’s first novel and masterpiece “Madame Bovary” is published in book form
1877 – Catcher’s mask 1st used in a baseball game
1961 – Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person to orbit Earth (Vostok 1)
1963 – Beatles third single, “From Me To You” is released in UK
1978 – 13th Academy of Country Music Awards: Kenny Rogers and Crystal Gayle win
1990 – James Brown moves to a work-release center after serving 15 months of 6 year sentence for weapon and drug related convictions
1990 – H. J. Heinz, Chicken of the Sea and Bumble Bee Seafood say they wouldn’t buy tuna caught in nets that trap dolphins
2009 – U.S. Navy rescues captain Richard Phillips, killing three pirates and capturing a fourth