1534 – Turkish admiral Chaireddin “Barbarossa” occupies Tunis
1619 – Slavery begins in America: 1st known African Americans (approx. 20) land at Point Comfort (Fort Monroe), Virginia before being sold or traded into servitude
1648 – Battle of Lens: French Duc d’Enghien defeats Spaniards
1795 – Joseph Haydn returns to Vienna from England
1913 – 1st pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe Pégoud, France)
1962 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1974 – Nelson Rockefeller is selected as US Vice President by President Gerald Ford
1980 – UN Security Council condemns (14-0, US abstains) Israeli declaration that all of Jerusalem is its capital
1998 – The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government’s approval.
2018 – Polish immigrant and former volunteer Nazi guard Jakiw Palij (95) is deported from the US in New York to Germany