1863 – Skirmish at Danville, Mississippi
1939 – Oil refinery fire kills 500 and destroys Lagunillas, Venezuela
1964 – Detroit Red Wings Gordie Howe sets NHL record 627th career goal
1966 – Muhammad Ali TKOs Cleveland Williams in 3 for heavyweight title
1970 – Marshall U football team wiped out in DC-9 air crash at Kenova, West Virginia, killing 75
1976 – “Don’t Step on My Olive Branch” closes at Playhouse NYC after 16 performances
1990 – James Worthy is arrested in Houston and charged with two counts of solicitation of prostitution
2008 – Eurozone officially slips into recession for the first time since its creation in 1999, pushed down by recessions in Germany and Italy
2009 – The National Statistical Service of Greece states that the country has been in recession since the beginning of the year
2016 – “Moana” animated Disney film directed by Ron Clements and John Musker with voices by Auli’i Cravalho and Dwayne Johnson premieres in Los Angeles