1564 – Cardinal Granvelle flees Brussels
1915 – Brooklyn Robins manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substitutes a grapefruit
1970 – Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer
1975 – Bernard Slade’s stage comedy “Same Time, Next Year”, starring Ellen Burstyn and Charles Grodin, opens at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, NYC; later transfers to the Ambassador Theatre, and runs for a total of 1,453 performances
1980 – Ford Motor Co found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto
1982 – ABC TV crime drama “T.J. Hooker” premieres, starring William Shatner
1988 – 29th SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Georgia, 62-57
1988 – 35th ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Duke beats North Carolina, 65-61
1994 – Oil tank/airship crash at Bosporus (huge fire/15+ killed)
2005 – Terry Ratzmann shoots and kills six members of the Living Church of God and the minister at Sheraton Inn in Brookfield, Wisconsin before killing himself.