1677 – Jan and Nicolaas van der Heyden patent the fire hose
1746 – French expeditionary army occupies Labourdonnais and Dupleix Madras
1913 – Turkey and Bulgaria sign peace treaty in Constantinople
1952 – MLB Boston Braves play what turns out to be their last home game at Braves Field in Boston, losing to the Brooklyn Dodgers 8–2 before crowd of 8,822; team relocates to Milwaukee before start of next season
1965 – Singapore admitted as part of the United Nations
1986 – NY Jets beat Miami Dolphins 51-45 in OT; record 884 passing yards
2008 – Last two remaining independent investment banks on Wall Street, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, become bank holding companies as a result of the subprime mortgage crisis
2016 – Genomic study finds Australian Aboriginals as the oldest known civilization on Earth published in “Nature”