1343 – Pope Clement VI issues the Bull Unigenitus
1556 – Willem of Orange becomes a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece
1870 – 1st sorority (Kappa Alpha Theta) (DePauw U in Greencastle, Indiana)
1891 – Mine explosion kills 109 at Mount Pleasant Pennsylvania
1900 – Foreign diplomats in Peking, China, write formal notes of protest demanding that the Chinese Government stop the Boxes and other groups leading attacks on Westerners and Christians.
1908 – Pasiphaë, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Melotte
1944 – Casey Stengel, manager of the Boston Braves since 1938, resigns Lou Perini, Guido Rugo, and Joseph Maney buy control of Boston Braves
1951 – Leonard Bernstein’s musical “Peter Pan”, starring Jean Arthur and Boris Karloff, closes at Imperial Theater, NYC, after 320 performances
1967 – A fire in the Apollo 1 Command Module kills astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger B. Chaffee during a launch rehearsal
1996 – Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane, in a military coup.