1559 – Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey
1831 – 1st US-built locomotive to pull a passenger train makes 1st run
1892 – Basketball rules first published in Triangle Magazine, written by James Naismith
1907 – Gold dental inlays first described by William Taggart, who invented them
1962 – Derveni Papyrus rediscovered – Europe’s oldest surviving manuscript from c. 340 B.C., commentary on a Orphic poem, found in a tomb in Derveni, Northern Greece
1972 – TV drama “Emergency” with Randolph Mantooth and Robert Fuller premieres on NBC TV
1994 – Queen Elizabeth falls off her horse and breaks her left wrist
1998 – NASA announces John Glenn, 76, may fly in space again
2019 – Theresa May’s Brexit deal with the EU is rejected by UK parliament 432 votes to 202, largest parliamentary defeat in its democratic era
2019 – LGBTQ activists accuse the Russian republic of Chechnya of a new gay purge with 40 detained and two killed