1881 – Chicago Tribune reports on a televideo experiment
1922 – Second government of Ruys de Beerenbrouck installed in Netherlands
1931 – Mukden Incident: To create a pretext for the invasion of Manchuria, China, the Japanese detonate a small quantity of dynamite close to a railway line owned by Japan’s South Manchuria Railway
1962 – Bob Aspromonte sets a National League third baseman record of 57 consecutive errorless games
1976 – Rev Sun Myung Moon holds “God Bless America” convention at Yankee Stadium in New York City
1980 – Soyuz 38 carries two cosmonauts, including one Cuban, to the Salyut 6 space station
1990 – Atlanta is chosen to host the 1996 (centennial) Summer Olympics
1994 – Ken Burns’ documentary miniseries “Baseball” premieres on PBS (wins an Emmy for Outstanding Informational Series)