1497 – Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama reaches the Cape of Good Hope
1745 – Bonnie Prince Charlie’s troops occupy Carlisle
1942 – Thornton Wilder’s “Skin of our Teeth” premieres in NYC
1956 – Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev says the phrase “we will bury you!” to Western ambassadors at a reception at the Polish embassy in Moscow
1984 – “3 Musketeers” closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 9 performances
1993 – WWF boss Vince McMahon charged with steroid distribution
2007 – 35th American Music Awards: Fergie, Justin Timberlake and Carrie Underwood win
2013 – 20 people are killed after a train collides with a minibus in Cairo, Egypt
2020 – US COVID-19 death toll passes 250,000, recorded cases at 11.5 million, hospitalizations at 76,830 amid a country-wide surge
2021 – Longest partial lunar eclipse since 1440, lasting 3 hours, 28 minutes and 23 seconds