1643 – Battle of Grantham: English parliamentary armies beat royalists
1941 – Willy Lewis’ US jazz band performs in Switzerland
1946 – Sarwate and Banerjee add 249 for 10th wkt for Indians v Surrey
1946 – US sentences 58 camp guards of Mauthausen concentration camp to death
1949 – 1st British-produced jet bomber, the Canberra, makes its 1st test flight
1958 – Stan Musial is 8th to get 3,000 hits
1958 – Jordan and Iraq form Arab Federation
1989 – Approx 2,000 students begin hunger strike in Tiananmen Square, China
1995 – Team New Zealand beats Team Dennis Conner 5-0 to win the America’s Cup for the first time
2012 – 49 dismembered bodies are found on a Mexican highway as part of the Mexican drug war