1778 – Washington’s troops finally leave Valley Forge
1889 – Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure “Man with the Twisted Lip”
1938 – Reds Johnny Vander Meer extends his string of hitless baseball innings to 21 2/3 before Debs Garms singles for Boston in 4th
1960 – Loretta Lynn records “Honky Tonk Girl”
1964 – Cambuur Leeuwarden BVO soccer team forms in Leeuwarden
1978 – Garfield, created by Jim Davis, 1st appears as a comic strip
1979 – In NYC 36,211 show up to witness return of Billy Martin as manager of the New York Yankees
1985 – Reggie Jackson hits his 513th HR to move into 10th place
1988 – Shirley Furlong wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
2012 – Antonis Samaras, the leader of the New Democracy party in Greece, forms a coalition government