1784 – 1st US balloon flight (13 year old Edward Warren)
1909 – Confessional parties win Dutch parliamentary elections
1919 – Nitti government forms in Italy
1946 – In South Africa, a group of white men attack and assault Indian Passive Resisters
1979 – West Indies beat England by 92 runs to win Cricket World Cup
1981 – French government of Mauroy forms, with 4 communists
1994 – Opération Turquoise: 2,500 French troops head into Rwanda to protect civilians under the mandate of the United Nations
1996 – “Tartuffe: Born Again” closes at Circle in Sq NYC after 29 performances
2004 – Bob Dylan accepts honorary doctorate of music degree from the University of St Andrews, Scotland’s oldest university
2016 – Amy Schumer announces her first world tour during a sold-out performance at Madison Square Garden