1648 – King Charles I of England first tries to escape captivity at Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight by climbing out a window – but gets stuck
1819 – London’s famous Burlington Arcade opens, the world’s 1st shopping arcade
1911 – Winter Garden Theater opens at 1634 Broadway NYC
1934 – American all-round female super athlete Babe Didrikson Zaharias pitches a hitless inning for Philadelphia A’s in their exhibition pre-season baseball game against Brooklyn Dodgers
1940 – Paul Reynoud becomes French premier
1947 – 180 tonne blue whale (record) caught in South Atlantic
1957 – Britain accepts NATO offer to mediate in Cyprus, but Greece rejects it
1996 – UK admits humans can catch CJD (Mad Cow Disease)
2019 – Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts calls the state’s flooding “the most widespread destruction we have ever seen in our state’s history”
2022 – Intense fighting in Ukrainian city of Mariupol continues as Russian forces encircle the city, trapping 300,000 people