1580 – Duke of Alva’s army occupies Portugal
1909 – Etten-Leur 1st airplane flight in Neth (Belgium count De Lambert)
1942 – PQ-17 convoy leaves Iceland for Archangelsk
1959 – “West Side Story” closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 734 performances
1980 – Dodgers’ Jerry Reuss no-hits SF Giants 8-0
1986 – South African Journalist and founder of the ‘New Nation’ newspaper, Zwelakhe Sisulu is abducted; he was released 721 days later on 2 December 1988
1999 – ATB go to No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘9pm, Till I Come’
1999 – LPGA Championship, DuPont CC: Juli Inkster shoots final round 65 to win by 4 strokes ahead of runner-up Liselotte Neumann; completes career grand slam
2017 – Petya malware cyber-attack affects organisations in more than 64 countries
2017 – Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook has reached 2 billion monthly users