1562 – Council of Trente takes ecclesiastical canon
1914 – Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
1920 – Cards set a record of 12 consecutive hits in 4th (10) and 5th (2) innings
1929 – British troops begin withdrawal from occupied Germany
1934 – RCA Victor releases 1st 33 1/3 rpm recording (Beethoven’s 5th)
1939 – Poland’s President Ignacy Mościck and Prime Minister Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski flee to Romania
1940 – Adolf Hitler indefinitely postpones Operation Sealion, the planned German invasion of Great Britain
1988 – 24th Olympic games open at Seoul, Korea
2012 – China dispatches 1,000 fishing boats to Senkaku Islands
2015 – US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports 2015 Northern Hemisphere summer hottest on record