1346 – Battle of Neville’s Cross: King David II of Scotland is captured by Edward III of England at Calais, and imprisoned in the Tower of London for eleven years
1797 – Peace of Campo Formio: Austrian Dutch possessions and France
1871 – Great Britain annexes Griqualand, South Africa
1894 – Ohio national guard kills 3 lynchers while rescuing a black man
1945 – Loyalty Day in Argentina, mass demonstrations held to release Juan Perón
1959 – Queen Elizabeth II is fined $140 for withdrawing her race horse
1965 – “On A Clear Day You Can See Forever” opens in NYC for 280 performances
1969 – NY Nets move from Comack to Island Garden, Hempstead NY
1978 – NY Yankees beat Dodgers, 4 games to 2 in 75th World Series
2019 – The ‘Blob’, mysterious yellow slime organism (physarum polycephalum) with 720 sexes, moves and can solve problems to go on display at the Paris Zoological Park