1759 – British capture Fort Niagara from French (7 Years’ War)
1900 – Gloucestershire captain Gilbert Jessop hits his second century (139 in 95 minutes) before lunch in same County Cricket match (104 previous day); Yorkshire wins by 40 runs
1908 – Ajinomoto Co. is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers a key ingredient in Konbu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), patents a process for manufacturing it.
1914 – Serbia meets the deadlines of Austria-Hungary’s ultimatum and gives a conciliatory reply, though Serbia is mobilizing
1973 – George Harrison pays £1,000,000 tax on his Bangladesh concert and album
1978 – John Lydon forms rock group Public Ltd Image
1985 – USSR performs nuclear Test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
1990 – Nadezhda Ryashkina of USSR sets 10K walk woman’s record (41:56.23)
2014 – Both Israel and Hamas review US Secretary of State John Kerry’s proposal for an immediate ceasefire and meetings in Cairo
2018 – Liquid lake found on Mars under its South Pole by European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter reported in “Science”