1746 – Jacobite Rising 1745: Battle of Culloden, the last battle on British soil: Royalist troops under the Duke of Cumberland defeat the Jacobite army of Charles Edward Stuart
1928 – 32nd Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar in 2:37:07.8; back-to-back wins for his 6th race title
1940 – Heitor Villa-Lobos’ opera “Izaht” premieres in Rio de Janeiro
1948 – Organization for European Economic Cooperation (EEC) forms in Paris
1959 – “Party with Comden and Green” opens at John Golden NYC for 44 performances
1972 – Apollo 16 launched; 5th manned lunar landing (Decartes Highlands)
1975 – Cambodian Red Khmer occupy Phnom Penh
1980 – Arthur Ashe retires from professional tennis
1990 – Maximum NY State unemployment benefits raised to $260 per week
1990 – Supreme Court rejects appeal from retarded man, Dalton Prejean, condemned to death for murdering a Louisiana state trooper in 1977