1789 – 1st loan to US government (from NYC banks)
1923 – With Spain’s king Alfonso XIII assist, army coup under de Rivera
1930 – Winnipeg Rugby Football Club 1st game, loses to St John’s Rugby, 7-3
1931 – Right-radical coup of Dr Pfrimer fails in Austria
1944 – US 28th Infantry division opens assault on Siegfried line/Westwall
1960 – Dutch 1st Chamber condemns soccer-law
1969 – Baltimore Orioles, win earliest AL Eastern division title
1977 – General Motors introduces 1st US diesel auto (Oldsmobile 88)
2010 – US Open Men’s Tennis: Rafael Nadal wins his first US crown; beats Novak Đoković 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-2; first Spanish man to win US title since Manuel Orantes 1975
2012 – 33,000 people are evacuated after Guatemala’s Volcano of Fire erupts