1511 – Italian city Mirandola surrenders to the French
1668 – King Louis XIV and Emperor Leopold I sign treaty dividing Spain
1808 – Louis Napoleon signs 1st Dutch aviation law
1955 – “Scrabble” debuts on board game market
1963 – Australian Championships Men’s Tennis: Roy Emerson wins 1st of 5 straight Australian titles; beats countryman Ken Fletcher 6-3, 6-3, 6-1
1971 – “No, No Nanette” opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 861 performances
1979 – John N Mitchell (former US Attorney General) released on parole from federal prison
2006 – Terrorist blows himself up in Tel Aviv, killing only himself but injuring 20 people, one of them seriously
2007 – Armenian Journalist Hrant Dink assassinated in front of his newspaper’s office by 17 year old Turkish ultranationalist Ogün Samast.
2013 – Calcium deposits are discovered on Mars by NASA’s Curiosity Rover