1665 – Jean Racine’s “Alexandre le Grand” premieres in Paris
1836 – Whig party holds its first national convention, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
1851 – President Louis Napoleon Boaparte’s forces crush an attempted coup d’etat in France
1864 – Romanian Jews are forbidden to practise law
1921 – The Virginia Rappe manslaughter trial against Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle ends in a hung jury
1944 – Germans destroy Rhine dikes, Betuwe flooded
1949 – Duncan Stewart, 2nd British Governor of Sarawak is fatally stabbed in the streets of Sibu by Malay student Rosli Dhoby with help from Morshidi Sidek with the goal of helping neighbouring Indonesia to take over British Sarawak
1991 – Muslim Shi’ites release last US hostage Terry Anderson (held 6½ years)
1994 – 83rd Davis Cup: Sweden beats Russia in Moscow (4-1)
2013 – Xavier Bettel becomes Luxenberg’s first openly gay Prime Minister