1691 – Spanish king Carlos II names Maximilian II as Viceroy of Southern Netherlands
1914 – Walter Johnson accepts an advance from the Chicago Whales of the Federal League; Washington Senators owner Clark Griffith threatens to take Johnson to court
1963 – Boston Bruins’ right wing Andy Hebenton sets a new NHL record by playing in his 581st consecutive game in 2-2 tie with Chicago Black Hawks; reaches 630 straight games
1964 – Baseball approves a free-agent draft
1965 – San Francisco Giant Masanori Murakami, 4-1 this year, does not renew his contract signing instead with the Nankai Hawks of Osaka for $40,000
1974 – Jean-Paul Sartre visits Red Army Faction (Baader–Meinhof Gang) leader Andreas Baader in prison
1977 – Neil Simon’s play “Chapter Two” opens in NYC
1981 – Reagan Executive Order on Intelligence (No 12333) that allows CIA to engage in domestic counter-intelligence
1987 – Karlstad skates world record 10 km (13:48.51)
2018 – First successful birth resulting from uterus transplant from a deceased donor in São Paulo, Brazil