1937 – NYC college students stage 4th annual peace strike
1944 – Allies land near Hollandia, New Guinea
1962 – Stanley Cup Final, Chicago Stadium, Chicago, IL: Dick Duff scores the winner as Toronto Maple Leafs beat Chicago Blackhawks, 2-1 for a 4-2 series victory
1971 – Soyuz 10 launches as the world’s first mission to the first-ever space station (the Salyut 1) however the docking was unsuccessful and the cosmonauts returned to Earth
1977 – Shimon Peres becomes the 8th Prime Minister of Israel
1983 – Start of 1st Sri Lanka-Australia Test Cricket match (at Kandy)
1994 – Ice skater Tonya Harding sues ex-husband Jeff Gillooly for $42,500
1994 – 7,000 Tutsi slaughtered by Hutus in the stadium at Kibuye, Rwanda
1994 – Michael Moorer beats Evander Holyfield in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
2016 – Paris Agreement on climate change signed in New York binding 195 nations to an increase in the global average temperature to less than 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5°C