235 – St. Pontianus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1668 – English expedition to Hudson Bay led by Frenchman Médard Chouart Des Groseilliers arrives at the Nemiscau (Rupert) River aboard the Nonsuch, beginning of the Hudson’s Bay Company
1859 – Great auroral display in the US
1937 – Frans Slaats cycles a world hour record time (45,563 km)
1949 – “Front Page” debuts on CBS-TV
1962 – Algerian government of Ben Bella forms
2009 – An 8.0 magnitude earthquake near the Samoan Islands causes a tsunami
2019 – In the Austrian general election, the conservative People’s Party, led by Sebastian Kurz, is the leading party with 37.5% of the vote