1311 – General Malik Kafur returns to Delhi after campaign in South India
1704 – 1st continuously published newspaper in America – The Boston News-Letter published in Boston by John Campbell
1872 – Volcano Mt Vesuvius erupts in Italy
1915 – German army fires chloroform gas in Ypres (Leper)
1954 – Australia and USSR break diplomatic relations
1955 – KFDM TV channel 6 in Beaumont, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
1968 – Mauritius becomes a member state of the United Nations.
1979 – US State of Georgia designates Ray Charles’ rendition of “Georgia On My Mind” (written by Hoagy Carmichael) as official state song
1987 – Howard Stern holds a free speech rally at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, NYC
2013 – 33 people are killed and 115 are injured after a magnitude 5.7 earthquake strikes Jalalabad, Afghanistan