1180 – Battle of Ishibashiyama in Japan.
1918 – WWI: Austria-Hungary sends a note to the Allies requesting peace discussions, but the Allies reject the offer
1930 – Detroit Lions (as Portsmouth Spartans) play 1st NFL game, win 13-6
1975 – Rembrandts “Nightwatch” slashed and damaged in Amsterdam
1982 – 36″ snow (Red Lodge, MT)
1984 – 1st MTV Video Music Awards: The Cars win with “You Might Think”
1988 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1989 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1996 – Dean Headley takes 3rd cricket hat-trick of season, Kent v Hampshire
2015 – 14 yr old Texan Ahmed Mohamed arrested at school when home-made clock assumed to be a bomb – Mark Zuckerberg and US President Barack Obama send supportive tweets