1598 – France and Spain sign Peace of Vervins
1900 – George Bernard Shaw’s play “You Never Can Tell” premieres in London
1905 – French newspapers publish lists of Jules Verne’s unpublished work
1952 – 1st scheduled jet airliner passenger service began with a British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) Comet from London to Johannesburg carrying 36 passengers
1998 – Battle of Hogwarts: fictional battle that ended the Second Wizarding War with the death of Lord Voldemort at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
1998 – 124th Kentucky Derby: Kent Desormeaux aboard Real Quiet wins in 2:02.20
2015 – Toulon win the 2015 European Rugby Champions Cup final at Twickenham
2018 – Kanye West widely criticized for saying “slavery is a choice” in TMZ interview
2018 – Date for first humans or hominins in the Philippines pushed back ten-fold after report of site on Luzon with butchered rhinoceros 709,000 years ago
2019 – US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi accuses Attorney General William Barr of lying to Congress over the Mueller Report