715 – St Gregory II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1828 – U.S. President John Quincy Adams signs the Tariff of 1828/Tariff of Abominations into law to protect industry in the North
1891 – Rice Institute, which became Rice University in Houston, Texas, is chartered
1896 – 1st auto (Karl Benz) arrives in Netherlands
1906 – Federated Boys’ Club (Boys’ Club of America) organizes
1960 – Alan Freed and eight other DJs accused of taking radio payola
1988 – Carlos Lehder Rivas, of Colombia’s Medellin drug cartel, is convicted in Florida for smuggling more than 3 tons of cocaine into US
1992 – Amy Fisher shoots Mary Jo Buttafuoco in the face in an altercation over an affair with her husband, in Massapequa, New York
1994 – Tennis star Jennifer Capriati (18), checks into a drug rehab center
2021 – BBC investigation finds their 1995 Princess Dianna interview was secured through ‘deceitful behavior’ by journalist Martin Bashir