1928 – Italian aviator Umberto Nobile flies airship Italia over North Pole again (crashes onto ice pack a day later)
1928 – Record 12 future Baseball Hall of Famers take the field as NY Yankees beat Philadelphia A’s, 9-7 at Shibe Park; managers Miller Huggins and Connie Mack, umpire Tom Connolly also HOF’ers
1943 – Final entry in the Stroop Report, detailing the destruction of the Jewish Warsaw Ghetto, compiled by Nazi officers, later used as evidence in the Nuremberg trials
1957 – Anti-American riots breakout in Taipei, Taiwan
1960 – 1 millionth Dutch telephone installed
1961 – NASA Explorer Ionosphere research mission fails to reach Earth orbit
1968 – Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull arrested for drug possession in England
1978 – Dutch Investment bill (WIR) law goes into effect
1987 – Golden Gate Bridge 50th anniversary: Over 800K people show up, 300K walk on bridge at same time, span temporarily flattens from weight (San Francisco, California)
1989 – Weird Al Yankovic records three tracks for his UHF movie soundtrack