1915 – John McCrae writes the poem “In Flanders Fields”
1926 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith)
1946 – International military tribunal in Tokyo begins
1954 – KTEN TV channel 10 in Ada-Ardmore, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
1961 – Warren Spahn pitches a 2 hitter after pitching a no hitter
1979 – Martin Sherman’s “Bent” premieres in London
1986 – Cubs 3rd baseman Ron Cey hits his 300th and 301st HR
1991 – 356th and final episode of CBS second longest running series “Dallas”, (2nd only to “Gunsmoke”)
1995 – Australia beat West Indies to regain the Frank Worrell Cricket Trophy
2019 – Cyclone Fani strikes Odisha State, India and Bangladesh, killing 33 people after one of the biggest human evacuations ever – 1.2 million in India in 24 hours