1869 – Black Friday; Wall St panic after Gould and Fisk attempt to corner gold
1877 – Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion
1884 – Dixey, Rice and Gill’s musical “Adonis” premieres in NYC
1955 – “Catch a Star” closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 23 performances
1969 – Ton Duc Thang elected president of North Vietnam
1979 – Russian ice skaters Protopopov and Beloussova ask for asylum in Switzerland
1988 – Dave Stieb has no-hitter broken up with 2 outs in the 9th
1991 – Robin Yount is 37th to hit 2,000 singles
1994 – National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar
2017 – Plastic polystyrene rubbish discovered for first time only 1,000 miles from the north pole by international team of scientists