1656 – Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn declares he is insolvent
1822 – Secret meeting of Simón Bolívar and Jose de San Martin
1847 – The Liberian Declaration of Independence is signed making Liberia a sovereign nation, independent from the American Colonization Society
1866 – Canoe Club opens in England
1908 – United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation)
1928 – Gene Tunney TKOs Tom Heeney in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1945 – Physicist Raemer Schreiber and Lieutenant Colonel Peer de Silva depart Kirtland Army Air Field to transport the plutonium core for the Fat Man bomb (bombing of Nagasaki) to the island of Tinian where the bomb is assembled
1952 – Mickey Mantle hits his 1st grand-slammer
1991 – CFL assumes ownership of Ottawa Rough Riders
2019 – Australian cricket captain Meg Lanning records T20 International world record individual score of 133 off 63 balls in 93-run win against England at Chelmsford; Southern Stars clinch Women’s Ashes