1386 – Duke Philip the Stout forms Council of Flanders
1799 – First US printed ballots are authorized in Pennsylvania
1939 – German battleship Bismarck was launched
1944 – 891 British bombers attack Berlin in the largest raid by the RAF against the city
1956 – Pirates and KC As cancel an exhibition game in Birmingham, Alabama, due to a local ordinance barring Black players from playing against White players
1970 – Ard Schenk becomes world champion all-round skater
1985 – Teen film “The Breakfast Club” is released, written and directed by John Hughes, starring Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall and Ally Sheedy
1995 – Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at record 3986.17
2012 – United Kingdom unemployment rate reaches 17 year high of 8.4%
2023 – Scientists warn the Thwaites Glacier, the so-called “Doomsday Glacier” and the size of Florida, is weakening threatening a global sea level rise of 1.6 meters