1899 – Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill captured by Boers in Natal
1913 – Australasian Championships Men’s Tennis, Perth: Australian Ernie Parker beats NZ namesake Harry Parker 2-6, 6-1, 6-3, 6-2
1920 – Ernst Toller’s “Massen und Menschen” premieres in Nuremberg
1953 – WRBL TV channel 3 in Columbus, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1987 – Brazilian Williams driver Nelson Piquet retires from Australian Grand Prix at Adelaide with break trouble but wins his 3rd Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by 12 points from Nigel Mansell
1989 – “Few Good Men” opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 497 performances
1991 – Dow Jones avg drops 120.31 points (5th largest dive)
1999 – Next transit of Mercury visible in North America
2017 – The Zimbabwean Army detains Robert Mugabe and the first family and appoints sacked Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa as interim president
2020 – World-record price for a Belgian racing pigeon called New Kim sold for €1.6m (£1.4m) at auction