1654 – Anglo-Portuguese treaty is reinforced, England guarantees Portugal’s independence and receives trade concessions
1712 – The Riot Act takes effect in Great Britain
1793 – Scottish explorer Alexander Mackenzie completes the first European east-to-west crossing of America north of Mexico
1926 – A convention of the Methodist Church votes to allow women to become priests
1943 – Jacques Lusseyran is arrested by the Gestapo after being betrayed by a fellow member of the French resistance
1951 – Talal bin Abdullah (42) is coronated as King of Jordan, after the assassination of his father
1963 – Verne Gagne beats Crusher Lisowski in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ
1981 – Irene Sáez, of Venezuela, crowned 30th Miss Universe
1982 – Hyde Park and Regent’s Park bombings: 11 British soldiers and 7 military horses killed in Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb attacks during military ceremonies in London
2020 – Scientists find evidence of volcanoes on Venus, showing the planet is not as dormant as previously thought (Nature Geoscience)