1692 – Last people hanged for witchcraft (8) in the US, 19 hanged overall, with six other deaths during Salem witch trials
1711 – French troops occupy Rio de Janeiro
1832 – During his HMS Beagle voyage Charles Darwin discovers a large number of fossils at Punta Alta in Argentina
1864 – Sheridan sets up camp in Harrisonburg, Virginia
1915 – Xavier University, 1st Black Catholic College in US, opens in NO LA
1927 – Yanks Earle Coombs hits 3 triples
1950 – Omar Bradley promoted to rank of 5-star general in the United States Army
1978 – Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin returns home after Camp David summit
2013 – 78 people are killed in a church suicide bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan
2018 – Four gunmen open fire on Revolutionary Guard soldiers at a parade in Ahvaz, Iran, killing 25 including civilians