1582 – Bishop Domingo de Salazar of Manila suppresses the Philippines
1855 – Commissioners appointed to lay out San Francisco streets west of Larkin
1909 – 1st balloon honeymoon (Roger Burham and Eleanor Waring)
1950 – Joe Dimaggio’s 2,000th hit, Yanks beat Indians 8-2
1968 – Austin Currie, then Nationalist Member of Parliament (MP) at Stormont, and other Irish civil rights activists, protest discrimination in the allocation of housing by ‘squatting’ (illegally occupying) in a house in Caledon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
1973 – Juan Perón returns from exile to Argentina after 18 years
1973 – SF Giants Bobby Bonds sets NL record with 22 lead off HRs
1981 – Pope John Paul II hospitalized for 55 days for infection
1983 – New York Yankees 5-time MLB All Star outfielder Bobby Murcer retires
2020 – Historic dust cloud from the Sahara desert reaches the Caribbean, largest for half a century