1940 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands dismisses Dutch Prime Minister Dirk Jan de Geer
1953 – Phil Grate sets a record for throwing a baseball 443 ft 3 in (135.1 m)
1968 – Yankees and Tigers play a 3-3 tie in 19 innings due to a 1 am curfew
1973 – Norrmalmstorg robbery and six-day siege begin in Stockholm, the first Swedish crime filmed live on TV and the origin of the term Stockholm Syndrome
1977 – First human-powered flight over a mile by Bryan Allen in the Gossamer Condor, designed by Paul MacCready, wins the first Kremer Prize
1992 – Wilhelm Verwoerd, grandson of former South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the main architect of apartheid, joins the African National Congress
2020 – Indianapolis 500: 2017 champion Takuma Sato of Japan wins his second title under a yellow caution flag after a crash with three laps remaining
2023 – Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner mercenary group, is reported killed along with nine others in a plane crash northwest of Moscow, according to the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency