1377 – First example of quarantine in Ragusa (now Dubrovnik); city council passes a law stating newcomers from plague areas must isolate for 30 days (later 40 days, quaranta in Italian)
1816 – US troops destroy Fort Apalachicola, a Seminole fort, to punish Indians for harboring runaway slaves
1897 – Dutch government of Pierson and Goeman Borgesius resigns
1927 – Mel Ott, 18, hits his first league home run (inside the park)
1988 – Baseball star Tommy John commits a record three errors on one play as the Yankees rout the Brewers 16-3
1992 – Astros begins 26-game road trip to make room for Republican National Convention
2003 – British Senior Open Men’s Golf, Turnberry: American Tom Watson wins in a playoff against Carl Mason of England
2021 – Triathlete Flora Duffy wins first Olympic gold medal for Bermuda in the women’s event at the Tokyo Games