1795 – William Hastings acquitted in England of high treason
1962 – Ranger 4, 1st US satellite to reach Moon launched from Cape Canaveral
1964 – Houston Colt 45s Ken Johnson becomes 1st major league pitcher to lose a 9 inning no-hitter, Reds win 1-0
1965 – American composer Randall Thompson marks his retirement from the Harvard faculty conducting the debut of his orchestrated arrangement of “Frostiana: Seven Country Songs” with the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society singing poetry of Robert Frost
1965 – Launch of 1st Soviet communications satellite
1969 – The Unionist Parliamentary Party votes by 28 to 22 to introduce universal adult suffrage in local government elections in Northern Ireland; the demand for ‘one man, one vote’ had been one of the most powerful slogans of the civil rights movement
1985 – Brooklyn College soccer team wins Nepal’s invitational
1991 – USSR grants republics right to secede under certain conditions
2012 – Rangers F.C. owner, Craig Whyte, is banned for life from any involvement in Scottish football
2024 – Details of ancient Greek philosopher Plato’s last night and burial place revealed by deciphering a carbonized scroll from Herculaneum, using new technologies including AI