1880 – Best selling American novel “Ben-Hur: A Tale of The Christ” by soldier Lew Wallace is published
1909 – Mackenzie King takes his seat in the House of Commons as Minister of Labour
1927 – Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, paving the way for Joseph Stalin to consolidate complete power
1933 – 1st game at NFL Pitts Pirate’s Forbes Field, lose to Bkln Dodgers 32-0
1935 – Egas Moniz performs the first modern brain surgery on the frontal lobes to treat mental disorders, at Santa Marta Hospital in Lisbon, Portugal
1952 – Philadelphia A’s pitcher Bobby Shantz wins AL MVP
1981 – 1st balloon crossing of Pacific is completed (Double Eagle V)
1986 – France performs nuclear test
1998 – Vice President of the United States Al Gore symbolically signs the Kyoto Protocol.
2014 – European Space Agency’s Rosetta lands the Philae probe on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko