1492 – Christopher Columbus sights “Isabela”, now Fortune Island/Long Cay, Bahamas
1856 – James Kelly and Jack Smith fight bareknuckle for 6h15m in Melbourne
1879 – Afghan’s emir Mohammed Yakub forced to resign
1944 – John Van Druten’s “I Remember Mama” premieres in NYC
1966 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1968 – The West German crew beats Australia by just 0.9s to win the men’s eights rowing gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics
1973 – Ringo Starr releases music single “Photograph” in the UK
1993 – UN authorizes arms, military and police supply embargo against Haiti
2019 – UK parliament votes for the Letwin amendment in a special Saturday sitting, which forces Boris Johnson to ask the EU for an extension and delays vote on his Brexit deal
2020 – US charges six Russian military officers with massive cyber-attack meant to disrupt 2020 Tokyo Olympics, 2017 French presidential election, and Ukraine’s power grid