1792 – Court martial begins for instigators of the mutiny on the Bounty on board HMS Duke in Portsmouth harbour, presided over by Vice-Admiral Samuel Hood
1857 – 423 die when “Central America” sinks off Cape Romain SC
1911 – Future Baseball Hall of Fame pitchers dual for final time; Boston Rustlers’ Cy Young vs Christy Mathewson of the Giants; NY wins, 11-2
1912 – Dutch Olympian Committee forms (NOC)
1914 – Yankee shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh, 23, becomes youngest manager
1932 – German government of Papen falls/Reichstag dissolved
1981 – “The Smurfs” animated cartoon series by Hanna-Barbera first broadcasts in North America
1983 – USSR vetoes UN resolution deploring its shooting down of Korean plane
2001 – Article V of the NATO agreement is invoked for the first and only time in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States of America.
2020 – Chloé Zhao’s “Nomadland” starring Frances McDormand wins the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival