1842 – Lord Rosse successfully casts 72″ (183-cm) mirror for a telescope
1896 – John Philip Sousa’s “El Capitan” premieres at the Tremont Theatre in Boston
1919 – British troops open fire on demonstrators in Amritsar, India, killing 350
1945 – Red Army occupies Vienna
1957 – Saturday postal delivery in US is temporarily halted due to lack of funds
1972 – 1st baseball players’ strike ends after 13 days
1975 – Christian Falange kills 27 Palestinians, begins Lebanese civil war
1991 – BPAA US Open by Pete Weber
2002 – Pedro Carmona, interim president of Venezuela, resigns one day after taking office
2019 – BTS is the first K-pop band to perform on US TV show “Saturday Night Live”