1794 – Russian Empress Catherine II (Catherine the Great) grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev
1909 – Confessional parties win Dutch parliamentary elections
1926 – The College Board administers the first SAT exam in USA
1928 – Commencement of West Indies cricket’s first ever Test match; England go on to win by an innings and 58 runs at Lord’s
1947 – Compton and Bill Edrich make 370 stand for 3rd wkt v South Africa
1972 – Hurricane Agnes becomes America’s costliest natural disaster, affecting 15 states, with 119 deaths and $3 billion in damage
1979 – Supertramp’s “Breakfast in America” becomes No. 1 album in the US featuring “Take the Long Way Home”
1997 – Dow Jones Industrial Average drops 192.25 points
2013 – 9 tourists and 1 tour guide are killed after gunmen storm a hotel near Nanga Parbat, Pakistan
2021 – Rembrandt’s masterpiece “The Night Watch” seen in its entirety for first time in 300 years after AI used to fill in pieces trimmed at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam