1465 – Battle at Montlhéry between Louis XI and the League of the Public Weal
1926 – National Geographic takes 1st natural-color undersea photos
1941 – 100°F (38°C) highest temperature ever recorded in Seattle, Washington
1942 – Jews transported from Holland to extermination camp
1977 – Janelle Commissiong, of Trinidad and Tobago crowned 26th Miss Universe
1981 – India performs nuclear Test
1988 – Jackie Joyner-Kersee sets women’s heptathlete record of 7,215 pts
1993 – S van Ruysdael’s “Winter Landscape” sold for £705,500 in London
1994 – Shreveport Pirates lose first CFL home game, 35-34 to the Toronto Argonauts at Independence Stadium in Shreveport, Louisiana
2018 – Historic cemetery (1878-1911) announced discovered near Houston, Texas, containing 95 remains though to be African Americans forced into labour