1864 – Troop train loaded with Confederate prisoners collided with a coal train killing 65 and injuring 109 of 955 aboard
1870 – Hudson’s Bay and Northwest Territories transferred to Canada
1900 – President Steyn/General De Law escape Brandwater Basin
1928 – 22nd Tour de France: Defending champion Nicolas Frantz of Luxembourg holds yellow jersey from start to finish; his Alcyon team has all 3 podium positions
1953 – ANC members, Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe leave South Africa and go overseas under false names
1961 – British Open Men’s Golf, Royal Birkdale GC: Arnold Palmer wins the first of 2 consecutive Open Championships, a stroke ahead of Welshman Dai Rees
1962 – Algeria becomes member of Arab League
1994 – NJ Nets Derrek Coleman accused of rape in Detroit
2002 – Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan hands down the death sentence to British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life terms to three others suspected of murdering Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl
2012 – US Senior Open Men’s Golf, Indianwood G andCC: Englishman Roger Chapman wins by 2 strokes ahead of Bernhard Langer, Fred Funk, Corey Pavin and Tom Lehman