1666 – St James’ Day naval battle is an English victory against the Dutch during Second Anglo-Dutch War off the Kent coast
1855 – John Bartlett publishes “Familiar Quotations”
1948 – Hungary’s Olga Gyarmati wins the first ever Olympic women’s long jump competition at the London Games
1954 – Boscombe Down 1st flight of supersonic P-1 Lightning
1974 – Crawford-Butler Act allows Puerto Ricans to elect own governor
1976 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1983 – Danielle Steel’s romance novel “Thurston House” is published
1993 – Rwandian Hutus and Tutsis sign peace treaty in Arusha, Tanzania
2019 – British Open Women’s Golf, Woburn GC: Hinako Shibuno of Japan wins her maiden major title in her first LPGA event; beats American Lizette Salas by 1 stroke
2021 – Largest wildfire in California so far in 2021, the Dixie Fire at 320,000 acres, destroys the gold rush town of Greenville