432 – Saint Patrick, aged about 16 is captured by Irish pirates from his home in Great Britain and taken as a slave to Ireland (traditional date)
1824 – Britain and Netherlands sign a trade agreement
1860 – Six years after the forcible ending of Japan’s isolationist policy by US Navy Commodore Matthew C. Perry, the Japanese Embassy arrives in San Francisco to sign a Treaty of Friendship
1876 – General Crook destroy Cheyennes and Oglala-Sioux Indian camps
1908 – Tommy Burns KOs Jem Roche in 88 seconds in the quickest world heavyweight boxing title fight
1926 – Dutch Calvinists oust Rev J G Geelkerken over Genesis 3
1953 – Bill Veeck says he will sell his 80% of St Louis Browns for $2,475M
1970 – US casts their 1st UN Security Council veto (Support England)
1975 – Valeri Muratov skates world record 1000m (1:16.92)
1985 – Matti Nykanen of Finland set a world ski jump record of 623′