1708 – Battle at Trencsén: Austria beats Hungarian rebellion army
1881 – Boers signs Convention of Pretoria: Transvaal semi-autonomous
1914 – German battle cruiser Goeben leaves Messina
1918 – The first allied troops land at Archangel, the Russian port on the White Seas
1973 – Flash fire kills 51 at amusement park (Isle of Man, UK)
1989 – 22nd San Diego Comic-Con International opens at Omni Hotel
1990 – “Little Night Music” opens at New York State Theater NYC for 11 performances
2001 – Olympic champion Gezahegne Abera of Ethiopia becomes first athlete to achieve Olympics-World Championships marathon double; runs 2:12:42 to beat Kenya’s Simon Biwott by just 0.1s in Edmonton World Championships
2017 – Rapper Kidd Creole arrested and charged for stabbing to death a homeless man in New York City
2020 – Number of Iranian COVID-19 deaths triple that of government tally, showing 42,000 have died instead of 14,405, according to BBC Persian Service investigation