122 – Building begins on Hadrian’s Wall, Northern England
1553 – English bishop Hugh Latimer arrested
1845 – English chemist Michael Faraday discovers the ‘Faraday effect’, the influence of a magnetic field on polarized light
1966 – Johannes Balthazar Vorster sworn in as premier of South Africa
1970 – New York City Marathon: inaugural event won by Gary Muhrcke in 2:31:38
1987 – Cesium-137 stolen from abandoned hospital in Rio de Janeiro
1989 – Fay Vincent elected baseball’s 8th commissioner
1997 – Elton John releases single “Something About the Way You Look Tonight” in the UK
2008 – New Zealand beats Australia, 28-24 in Brisbane to clinch their 4th straight Tri Nations Rugby Series; flyhalf Dan Carter scores a try and lands 4 conversions for the All Blacks
2017 – UN Secretary-General António Guterres says Rohingya refugee crisis now “catastrophic” as 370,000 confirmed to have fled Myanmar