1883 – US National Championship Men’s Tennis, Newport R.I.: Two-time defending champion Richard Sears wins 3rd straight title; beats James Dwight 6-2, 6-0, 9-7
1968 – Northern Ireland’s first civil rights march held; many more marches would be held over the following year and Loyalists organized counter-demonstrations to get the marches banned
1972 – Gordie Howe and Jean Béliveau inducted into the Ice Hockey Hall of Fame
1975 – Davey Lopes steals his 38th consecutive base, then thrown out stealing
1976 – Soyuz 21 returns to Earth
1987 – Announcement of possible Martian tornadoes
1991 – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of USSR Communist Party
1993 – Padres scores 14 in 1st vs Cardinals
1995 – Fire that wipes 6,000 acres begins in Hamptons on Long Island
2019 – US adventurer Victor Vescovo is the first person to visit the deepest point of every ocean when he reaches Molloy Hole, in the Arctic