1586 – Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe on return to England
1914 – Austria-Hungary decides against mediation and declares war on Serbia – first declaration of war of Word War I
1937 – Richard Moore scores 316 for Hampshire against Warwickshire
1944 – Adolf Hitler routes 4 division of South France to Normandy
1973 – France performs nuclear Test at Mururoa atoll, in the South Pacific
1977 – Roy Wilkins turns over NAACP leadership to Benjamin Hooks
1989 – Cards’ Vince Coleman is caught stealing ends record streak at 50
1992 – Groundbreaking of Fla Marlins 7,500 seat spring training stadium
2013 – 39 people are killed after a bus veers off a bridge in Avellino Province, Italy
2018 – Carr Fire reaches Redding, California, with death toll at 5 having burnt 80,000 acres