1652 – English-Dutch sea battle at Kentish Knock
1850 – US Navy abolishes flogging as punishment
1937 – FDR dedicates Bonneville Dam on Columbia River (Oregon)
1945 – Robert T Duncan appears as Tonio in “I Pagliacci”
1967 – Walter Washington elected 1st mayor of Washington, D.C.
1968 – “Noël Coward’s Sweet Potato” opens at Barrymore NYC for 17 performances
1974 – California Angel Nolan Ryan 3rd no-hitter beats Minn Twin, 4-0
1984 – 1st floodlit ODI outside of Australia (India v Aust, New Delhi)
2015 – DNA controllers for the age women go into menopause announced in “Nature Genetics” by research team from Exeter and Cambridge universities
2017 – Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus reveals she has breast cancer