1903 – Roger Casement completes report about abuses in Belgian Congo
1930 – Start of the 1st Australia v West Indies Test (at Adelaide)
1939 – Russ Indigirka capsizes in blizzard off Japanese coast; 750 die
1942 – A fire in a hostel in St. John’s, Newfoundland, kills 100 people
1965 – Vivian Beaumont Theater opens at 65th St and Amsterdam Ave NYC
1970 – Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 42 launched to study X-rays
1986 – James “Bone Crusher” Smith TKO’s WBA champ Tim Witherspoon in Madison Square Garden
1992 – Julia Kurotchkina, 18, of Russia, crowned 42nd Miss World
2008 – Andrei Klepach, Deputy Economic Minister of Russia, states that Russia has entered a recession, with two quarters of contraction expected, meaning Russia will fall short of reaching the 6.8% growth forecast for 2008
2018 – China built 88 out of world’s 143 skyscrapers in 2018 more than any country ever (buildings over 200 meters/656 ft)