1644 – Sea battle of Fehmarn Sont: Adm Thijssen beats Denen
1668 – Jews of Barbados forbidden to engage in retail trade
1920 – Chicago grand jury indicts Abe Attell, Hal Chase, and Bill Burns as go-betweens in Black Sox World Series scandal
1922 – Conservative Andrew Bonar Law forms government in United Kingdom, replacing David Lloyd George’s Liberal government
1943 – First Jewish transport out of Rome reaches camp Birkenau
1947 – NAACP petition on racism “An Appeal to the World” presented to UN
1958 – Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1989 – William Nicholson’s “Shadowlands” premieres in London
2002 – Moscow Theatre Siege begins: Chechen rebels seize the House of Culture theater in Moscow and take approximately 700 theater-goers hostage
2004 – A powerful earthquake and its aftershocks hit Niigata prefecture, northern Japan, killing 35 people, injuring 2,200, and leaving 85,000 homeless or evacuated.