1458 – Aenea Silvio Piccolomini chosen Pope Pius II
1826 – Canada Co chartered to colonize Upper Canada (Ontario)
1914 – German fleet bombs English coast
1934 – Paul Runyan wins PGA golf tournament
1944 – Polish 1st Division occupies Hill 262 (Mont Ormel), Normandy
1944 – Paris police strike against nazi occupiers
1955 – Hurricane Diane kills 200 and 1st billion $ damage storm (N.E. US)
1959 – Satellite Discoverer 6 launched into polar orbit
1992 – Romesh Kaluwitharana scores 132 on Test Cricket debut (SL v Australia)
2003 – A Hamas planned suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem kills 23 Israelis, 7 of them children