1694 – Hurricane hits Carlisle Bay Barbados; 27 British ships sink and 3,000 die
1894 – Aqueduct racetrack opens in NY
1937 – 1st Santa Claus Training School opens (Albion NY)
1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald visits Cubans consulate in Mexico
1967 – Phillies Jim Bunning ties NL record of 5, 1-0 losses in a year
1982 – Filming begins on “Never Say Never Again”
1990 – Tour de France champion Greg LeMond visits White House
2001 – At its two-day meeting in Vienna, OPEC decides to keep its production quotas unchanged at 23.2 million barrels per day, despite crude oil being at its lowest price levels since 1999
2012 – The 2004 Japanese discovery of the 133th element has been confirmed
2017 – Researchers confirm existence of giant tree rat “Vika” in the Solomon Islands that can crack open coconuts