1066 – 18th recorded perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet
1864 – Encounter at Camden, Arkansas
1877 – 39th Grand National: Fred Hobson aboard 15/1 shot Austerlitz wins by 4 lengths from Congress
1881 – Gas lamp sets fire to opera house in Nice, France; 70 die
1949 – Sidney Kingsley’s “Detective Story” premieres in NYC
1950 – 22nd Academy Awards: “All The King’s Men”, Broderick Crawford and Olivia De Havilland win
1950 – “Great to Be Alive” opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 52 performances
1956 – 18th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: San Francisco beats Iowa, 83-71
1979 – Wings release “Goodnight Tonight”
1987 – Former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt resigns as chairman of the Social Democratic Party