923 – Battle of Soissons: King Robert I of France is killed and King Charles the Simple is arrested by the supporters of Duke Rudolph of Burgundy
1864 – Capt Mendell begins building 640m long ponton bridge over James River, Virginia
1876 – Sara Spencer (R) is 1st woman to address a US presidential convention
1950 – Dutch police seize condoms
1983 – “Black Adder” TV comedy premieres starring Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson and written by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson on BBC1
1985 – En route to Halley’s Comet, USSR’s Vega 2 drops lander on Venus
1985 – “Pryor’s Place” children’s show last airs on CBS-TV
1996 – IRA bomb in Manchester wrecks city centre at 11.17am, injuring 200
2018 – Glasgow School of Art, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh burns down, four years after a previous fire
2018 – Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes charged with fraud over company’s blood tests