1876 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky completes his ballet “Swan Lake”
1876 – 1st official National League baseball game is played; Boston Red Caps beat Philadelphia Athletics, 6-5 at the Jefferson Street Grounds, Philadelphia
1898 – 1st Spanish–American War action sees the USS Nashville capture a Spanish ship
1947 – 1st Basketball Association of America Finals: Philadelphia Warriors beat Chicago Stags, 83-80 to take inaugural series, 4 games to 2
1983 – Stern mag announces major historical find-discovery of 60 volume personal diaries written by Adolf Hitler (turned out to be a hoax)
1994 – In Denmark the largest lollipop, weighing 3,011 pounds, made
2000 – In a pre-dawn raid, federal agents seize six-year-old Elián González from his relatives’ home in Miami, Florida.
2006 – Four Canadian soldiers are killed 75 kilometers north of Kandahar, Afghanistan by a roadside bomb planted by Taliban militants, the worst single day combat loss for the Canadian army since the Korean War
2013 – 6 people are killed in a shooting rampage in Belgorod, Russia
2014 – David Moyes is sacked as manager of Manchester United