1777 – Marquis de Lafayette lands in the US
1854 – Anthony Faas, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, patents the 1st US accordion, having made improvements to both the keyboard, and to enhance the sound (Patent No. 11,062)
1868 – Oscar Dunn becomes first African American to be elected a Lieutenant Governor, of Louisiana
1927 – Ticker-tape parade welcomes Charles A Lindbergh to NYC
1953 – Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:18:40.2)
1990 – “Les Miserables” opens at S Alberta Jubilee Centre, Calgary
1994 – Chicago Cub 2nd baseman Ryne Sandberg, retires due to poor play, he forfeits $15.7 million of his $25 million contract
2015 – Philae, 1st spacecraft to land on a comet in European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission re-awakes after 7 months
2018 – Volkswagen fined €1 billion (£880m) by German prosecutors over diesel emissions scandal
2019 – Archaeologists announce Scottish crannogs (fortified settlements on artificial islands in lochs) far older than first thought, radiocarbon dated to 3640-3360 BC, older than Stonehenge