1657 – Battle in Santa Cruz Bay, Tenerife: English fleet under Robert Blake sinks Spanish silver fleet
1910 – Halley’s Comet passes 29th recorded perihelion at 87.9 million km
1934 – Heinrich Himmler becomes inspector Prussian secret state police
1972 – Virgil Thomson’s final opera, “Lord Byron”, with libretto by Jack Larson, first performance at Lincoln Center, New York City
1981 – Rocker Papa John Phillips arrested for drug possession
1986 – Vladimir Horowitz performs in Moscow, Russia, his first appearance in his Russian homeland since 1925
1987 – US deports Karl Linnas to USSR, charged with Nazi war crimes
1992 – Joan Lunden, breaks her left shoulder after being thrown from a horse
1994 – Serbian army bombs hospital in Goradze Bosnia, 47 killed
1996 – 1996 NFL Draft: Keyshawn Johnson from USC first pick by New York Jets