1749 – Town of Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded by the British – sparks Father Le Loutre’s War
1946 – Federal judge in Seattle rules that club doesn’t have to play returning serviceman
1948 – Rhodes conference on Israeli-Arab war opens
1948 – Lord Mountbatten resigns as Governor General of India (formerly the last Viceroy)
1948 – 1st stored computer program runs on Manchester Mark I at a laboratory in Manchester University, England
1948 – HMT Empire Windrush with the first 800 emigrants from the West Indies to the UK arrives at Port of Tilbury near London
1970 – Detroit’s Cesar Gutierrez goes 7-for-7 to tie a record set in 1892
1994 – German tennis superstar Steffi Graf becomes first defending champion to lose in the 1st round of a major tournament (Wimbledon to American Lorrie McNeal)
2003 – “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” the 5th book of the series by J. K. Rowling is published worldwide in English
2024 – Landmark case in Namibia rules colonial laws banning same-sex between men are unconstitutional