1582 – Leidse university names Rembert Dodoens professor of botany and medicine
1745 – Battle at Kesseldorf: Prussian force beats Saksen and Austria near Dresden
1868 – Shogunate rebels found Ezo Republic in HokkaidÅ
1919 – Edna St Vincent Millay’s play “Aria da Capo” premieres in NYC
1969 – San Francisco Fire Department replaces leather helmets with plastic ones
1973 – American kidnap victim John Paul Getty III freed after ransom paid by oil tycoon grandfather John Paul Getty
1983 – Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via El Paso, Kelly AFB
1997 – “Spice World” movie directed by Bob Spiers and starring girl group the Spice Girls premieres in the UK
2011 – Former French President Jacques Chirac is convicted of diverting public funds, receives a two-year suspended prison sentence
2018 – Egyptian Archaeologists announce discovery of 4,400 year old tomb of Fifth Dynasty priest in Saqqara pyramid complex near Cairo