1538 – Battle at Preveza: Ottoman fleet under Barbarossa beats Papal alliance off Northwestern Greece
1701 – Divorce legalized in Maryland
1937 – FDR dedicates Bonneville Dam on Columbia River (Oregon)
1956 – “Johnny Carson Show” TV Variety last airs on CBS-TV
1968 – Janis Joplin announces she’s leaving “Big Brother and Holding Co”
1974 – John Lennon appears as guest DJ on WNEW-FM (NYC)
1975 – Oakland A’s Vida Blue, Glenn Abbott, Paul Linblad and Rollie Fingers, no-hits California Angels 5-0
1986 – Tight end Brian Foster of RI catches NCAA record 18 passes for 327 yds
1992 – Pakistani Airbus A-300 crashes into mountain at Kathmandu, 167 dies
2012 – Nigeria suspends flights to Saudi Arabia after hundreds of Nigerian women travelled without a male escort