1782 – George Washington creates Honorary Badge of Distinction
1798 – Battle of the Nile: British Royal Navy under Admiral Horatio Nelson further decimates the French fleet
1858 – 1st mailboxes installed in Boston and NYC streets
1892 – George A. Wheeler is granted a US patent for a prototype of the escalator
1942 – 250 Dutch Catholic Jews arrested, transported to Amersfoort camp
1979 – MLB New York Mets purchase contract of outfielder José Cardenal from Philadelphia Phillies between games of a double-header between the two teams
1980 – Fascist bomb attack on Bologna Italy train station, 86 killed
2008 – “Breaking Dawn”, 4th book in Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight Saga” is published by Little Brown at midnight with a print run of 3.7 million copies
2013 – Carl Icahn sues computer giant Dell in an attempt to derail a buyout bid by the CEO, Michael Dell
2020 – Islamic State stages a jail break at a prison in Afghan city of Jalalabad, placing bombs at its entrance, results in 20 hr gunfight, 29 deaths and over 300 prisoners at large