1825 – Scottish factory owner Robert Owen buys 30,000 acres in Indiana as site for New Harmony utopian community
1942 – American-British-Dutch-Australian (ABDA) Command forms
1948 – Australian cricket batting maestro Don Bradman completes dual Test centuries (132 and 127* [26th Test 100]) in 3rd Test v India in Melbourne
1961 – An explosion at the Nuclear Reactor Testing Station in Idaho Falls kills three operators
1977 – Former Home Secretary Roy Jenkins announces his intention to be Britain’s first President of the European Commission
1987 – Aretha Franklin is the first female artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
1988 – Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night premieres on Cinemax; concert performance includes James Burton; Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, and k.d. lang)
1992 – Australian cricket batsman David Boon scores an unbeaten 129 in drawn 3rd Test against India in Sydney; his 11th Test century
2014 – Cambodian garment workers go on strike demanding a wage increase
2019 – 116th US Congress convenes in Washington, D.C., electing Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House of Representatives for the second time