1752 – Pope Stephen II elected to succeed Zacharias, dies 2 days later
1861 – London’s 1st tramcars, designed by Mr Train of NY, begins operating
1931 – Indian independence fighters Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged after conducting an assassination and a bombing. Their request to be shot by a firing squad is refused.
1933 – Kroll Opera in Berlin opens
1950 – “Great to Be Alive” opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 52 performances
1980 – PGA Tournament Players Championship, Sawgrass Country Club (Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida): Lee Trevino wins by 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Ben Crenshaw
1981 – US Supreme Court upholds law making statutory rape a crime only for men
1988 – Geffen Records releases “Chalk Mark In A Rain Storm”, Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell’s 13th studio album
2019 – More than 130 Fulani people killed in Ogossagou, Mali, in attack by Dogon hunters, prompting government ban on the hunters
2023 – Canada records record population growth (+2.7%), adding 1 million people in 2022, mostly through immigration