1841 – 1st date in James Clavell’s novel Tai-Pan
1894 – King Lafia “Absalamu” of Nikki signs accord with France
1922 – English archaeologist Howard Carter opens Tutankhamun’s virtually intact tomb in Egypt
1925 – Netherlands and Germany sign trade agreement
1941 – Japanese naval carrier force left its base and moves east toward Pearl Harbor
1942 – Anti-fascist Council for National Liberation (AVNOJ) forms
1995 – 33rd Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Valencia Spain (3-2)
1999 – Steve Yzerman scores his 600th career goal
2011 – NATO forces in Afghanistan attack a Pakistani checkpoint in a friendly fire incident, killing 24 soldiers and wounding 13 others
2018 – Third of a species begin dying (23,000) over a two day period, the spectacled flying foxes, unable to survive heatwave of 42 degrees in northern Queensland, Australia