833 – Louis crowned King of Austria
1741 – Pope Benedict XIV encyclical forbidding traffic in alms
1881 – Henry Highland Garnet named US minister to Liberia
1909 – Jack Johnson fights Tony Ross to a no decision in 6 rounds at Duquesne Gardens, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to retain his heavyweight boxing title
1911 – British Open Men’s Golf, Royal St George’s Golf Club: Harry Vardon wins his 5th Championship by 10 shots in a playoff with 1907 champion Arnaud Massy of France
1934 – Detroit radio executive George Richards pays $7,952.08 to buy NFL’s Portsmouth Spartans; moves team to Detroit and rebrands it to ‘Lions’
1968 – East German Communist Party leader Walter Ulbricht receives “Order of October Revolution”
1981 – China’s Communist Party condemns late Mao Zedong’s policy
1993 – Richard Jacobs announces Chief Wahoo will go to Jacobs Field
2018 – Two members of the public confirmed poisoned by Novichok nerve agent, a women later dies, in Wiltshire, England; authorities suspect source was left over poison from the attack on former Russian spies Sergei Skripal and his daughter