1597 – French troops chase away Albrecht of Austria
1869 – Golf’s 1st recorded hole-in-one by Tom Morris at Prestwick’s 8th hole, Scotland
1901 – French painter Paul Gauguin settles in Atuona in the Marquesas Islands
1940 – Samuel T Rayburn of Texas elected speaker of US House of Representatives
1947 – Typhoon Kathleen hits Saitama, Tokyo and Tone River area, killing at least 1,930
1948 – “Mr Strauss Goes to Boston” closes at Century NYC after 12 performances
1975 – Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia (National Day)
1978 – New York Yankees beat Boston Red Sox, 3-2; at Yankee Stadium; Blue Bombers 6th win over arch rivals in 2 weeks
2018 – Evian Championship Women’s Golf, Evian Resort GC: At age 40, American Angela Stanford wins her first major title by 1 stroke from Amy Olson, Austin Ernst, Mo Martin and Kim Sei-young
2021 – Earliest evidence announced for humans making clothes discovered from bone tools 100,000 years old found at Contrebandiers Cave, Morocco