1198 – French bishop Odo van Sully condemns Zottenfeest
1773 – Expulsion of tea ships from Philadelphia
1813 – Zamose, Modlin, Torgau surrenders to allied armies
1830 – Gaetano Donizetti’s opera “Anna Bolena” premieres in Milan
1870 – The 12.8-km long Fréjus Rail Tunnel through the Alps is completed.
1965 – Paul McCartney is interviewed on pirate radio station Radio Caroline
1978 – India’s former Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi is released from jail
1983 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1996 – The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification goes into force
2015 – Floods in Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay displace 150,000, blamed on El Nino