1255 – Königsberg (modern day Kaliningrad) founded by Teutonic Knights and named in honor of the Bohemian King Ottokar II
1862 – Battle at Chantilly (Ox Hill) Virginia (2100 casualties)
1906 – Philadelphia beats the Red Sox 4-1 in 24 innings in Boston in the longest game in AL baseball history; both starters go the distance as A’s hurler Jack Coombs overcomes Boston’s Joe Harris
1916 – US Keating-Owen Act (child labor banned from interstate commerce)
1954 – “Rear Window”, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly, is released
1962 – United Nations announces Earth’s population has hit 3 billion
1981 – Fast bowler Terry Alderman takes his 42nd wicket of the series on the last day of the 5th cricket Test vs England at The Oval; haul remains record by an Australian bowler in England; England wins series 3-1
1990 – “Jerome Robbins’ Broadway” closes at Imperial NYC after 634 performances
2006 – Roger Goodell begins his tenure as NFL Commissioner
2012 – Two suicide bombings kill 12 people and wound 50 in a NATO base in Afghanistan’s Sayed Abad district