1536 – Sebastián de Belalcázar on his search of El Dorado founds the City of Santiago de Cali
1585 – Amsterdam bans 45 roman catholics
1795 – The first stone of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is laid
1814 – Battle of Niagara Falls (Lundy’s Lane); Americans defeat British
1860 – 1st US intercollegiate billiard match (Harvard vs Yale)
1956 – Jordan attacks UN Palestine force
1957 – Monarchy in Tunisia abolished in favor of a republic
1985 – Uganda suspends constitution following coup
1992 – Army refused to overturn 127 year old conviction against Dr Mudd
2018 – Liquid lake found on Mars under its South Pole by European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter reported in “Science”