1482 – Tatars plunder Kyiv, Ukraine
1547 – Holy Roman Emperor Charles V demands creation of an Imperial League (German state)
1948 – Australian Test batsmen Don Bradman (143), Lindsay Hassett (151) and Neil Harvey (110) score centuries in Australia’s 1st innings of drawn cricket tour match v South of England at Hastings
1968 – Pirate Radio Marina (Netherlands) begins transmitting
1975 – 5 Protestant civilians are killed and 7 were wounded in a Provisional Irish Republican Army gun attack on Tullyvallen Orange Hall near Newtownhamilton, County Armagh
1981 – Northern Ireland’s first religiously integrated secondary school opens
2007 – Tyson Gay helps US win the men’s 4 x 100m relay at the world track and field championships in Osaka, Japan to join Carl Lewis and Maurice Greene as the only men to win 3 gold medals at one world meet
2021 – Cristiano Ronaldo breaks world record for goals scored in men’s international football; hits his 110th and 111th goals for Portugal in 2-1 World Cup qualifying win over Republic of Ireland in Faro