1896 – Dial telephone patented
1934 – Australian cricket opening batsman Bill Ponsford is dismissed for 266 in his final Test match against England at The Oval; out for 22 in 2nd innings
1941 – Police raid 11th district of Paris, takes 4,000+ Jewish males
1952 – 13th Venice Film Festival: “Genghis Khan” directed by Manuel Conde wins the Golden Lion
1979 – The East Coast Main Line rail route between England and Scotland is restored when the Penmanshiel Diversion opens.
1980 – Reinhold Messner of Italy is 1st to solo ascent Mt Everest
1985 – Libya throws out 1000s Tunisian/Egyptian gas workers
1999 – 7th Athletics World Championships open at Seville, Spain
2016 – German canoeist Sebastian Brendel teams with Jan Vandrey to win the C-2 1,000m at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics; wraps up C-1 / C-2 1,000m double
2016 – Suicide bombing in Turkish city Gaziantep during a wedding party kills at least 51