1894 – Karl Benz of Germany receives US patent for gasoline-driven auto
1948 – US begin airlift “Operation Vittles” to West Berlin
1960 – British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain
1963 – Alfons Gorbach forms Austrian government
1977 – 42 die in fire inmate causes at Maury County Jail in Columbia Tenn
1983 – “Loving” premieres on TV
1985 – Portugal’s Socialist Prime Minister Mário Soares resigns amid predictions that Parliament would be dissolved and elections called
1987 – Losing 9-0 to Red Sox, Yanks score 11 in 3rd and win 12-11 in 10 inn
1989 – Supreme Court rules 16 year olds can receive death penalty
2018 – Polio outbreak confirmed in New Guinea by WHO, 18 years after it was declared free of the disease