1667 – English fleet plunders Suriname plantations
1909 – Comte de Lambert of France sets airplane altitude record of 300 m
1940 – Kaufman and Harts “George Washington Slept Here” premieres in NYC
1976 – Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to American William Lipscomb
1989 – East German state/party leader Erich Honecker, resigns
1990 – “Once on this Island” opens at Booth Theater NYC for 469 performances
1992 – “Oba Oba ’93” closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 22 performances
1993 – STS-58 (Columbia) launches into orbit
2009 – QB Tom Brady throws five second quarter touchdowns against the Tennessee Titans, an NFL record for touchdown passes in one quarter
2012 – Syrian military airstrikes kill 40 people in Maaret al-Numan