1822 – Secret meeting of Simón Bolívar and Jose de San Martin
1897 – 37.5 cm rainfall at Jewell, Maryland (state record)
1944 – Japanese suicide attack on US lines in Guam
1944 – Soviet troops arrive in Weichsel
1950 – Dodgers’ Jim Russell is 1st to switch-hits HRs twice in a game
1957 – USSR launches 1st intercontinental multistage ballistic missile
1962 – Milwaukee Brave Warren Spahn sets HR record of 31 by a pitcher
1963 – Skopje, Yugoslavia, destroyed by earthquake, kills 1,000+
1977 – USSR performs underground nuclear Test
2018 – Sir Paul McCartney performs a “secret” gig at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, where the Beatles began