1914 – A shipment of 35,000 rifles and 5 million rounds of ammunition are landed at Larne for the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF, an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland
1954 – 1st American, civilian pilot, P.R. Holden, wounded in Indochina
1963 – 17th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 2
1965 – Military coup under Donald Reid Cabral in Dominican Republic
1978 – Angels Nolan Ryan strikes out 15 Mariners, 20th time he has 15 in game
1979 – Rhodesian bishop Muzorewa wins general election
1982 – Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mike Durbin
1992 – George Steinbrenner drops his suits against baseball
1997 – “Steel Peer” opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 76 performances
2015 – Armenia commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Empire