1777 – American Revolutionary War – Battle of Cooch’s Bridge takes place near Newark, Delaware.
1840 – Nine Jewish prisoners are released from Damascus jails
1943 – Benito Mussolini transferred from La Maddalena Sardinia to Gran Sasso
1964 – WEWS-TV Channel 5’s “Upbeat” debuts in Cleveland
1972 – American 4 x 100m freestyle relay team of David Edgar, John Murphy, John Heidenreich and Mark Spitz swim a world record 3:26.42 to beat Soviet Union for the gold medal at the Munich Olympics
1986 – US Navy officer Jerry A Whitworth sentenced to 365 years for spying
1990 – F5 strength tornado hits Plainfield, Illinois, killing 29 and injuring 353
1990 – Cub’s Ryne Sandberg is 1st 2nd baseman to hit 30 HRs, consecutively
1993 – Long Beach California beats Panama for little league world championship
2019 – New Italian coalition government formed of anti-establishment Five Star Movement and center-left Democratic Party ousting Matteo Salvini