1345 – “Quaden Maendach” in Ghent: battles between fullers and weavers
1911 – French troops occupy Fès El Bali, Morocco
1956 – US Lab detects high-temperature microwave radiation from Venus
1970 – 96th Kentucky Derby: Mike Manganello on Dust Commander wins 2:03.4
1974 – Former US Vice President Spiro Agnew disbarred
1977 – “The King and I” opens at Uris Theater NYC for 719 performances
1982 – Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror, killing more than 350 men
1994 – Bus crashes into a tree at Gdańsk Poland, 32 killed
2013 – 60 miners are killed after a gold mine collapses in Jebel Amir, North Darfur, Sudan
2018 – Spanish Basque separatist group Eta announces it will be formally disbanding after 50 years