1757 – Battle at Hastenbeck: French army beats Duke of Cumberland
1805 – Naples/Calabria struck by Earthquake; about 26,000 die
1945 – After Labour landslide in general election, Clement Attlee becomes British Prime Minister
1947 – 46th Women’s French Championships: Patricia Todd beats Doris Hart (6-3, 3-6, 6-4)
1957 – Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 200
1962 – Maria Oeljanov, 1st airship with nuclear missiles, arrives in Cuba
1970 – Cincinnati Reds Johnny Bench hits 3 consecutive HRs off Philadelphia Phillies Steve Carlton
1983 – Challenger moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida), for mating for STS-8
1984 – Bowie Kuhn announces pitcher Vida Blue is suspended for the rest of 1984 due to cocaine conviction
2018 – Observation of a black hole by The Very Large Telescope in Chile proves Albert Einstein’s prediction of “gravitational redshift”, published in “Journal Astronomy and Astrophysics”