1783 – William Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus
1858 – War of Reform (Mexico); Liberals establish capital at Vera Cruz
1866 – Woodward’s Gardens opens to the public in San Francisco
1931 – Mustafa Kemal Pasja becomes Turkish president
1964 – Pulitzer prize for General Non-Fiction awarded to Richard Hofstadter for “Anti-intellectualism”
1970 – Pulitzer prize for General Non-Fiction awarded to Erik H. Erikson for “Gandhi’s Truth”
1972 – “The Don’t Make A Wave Committee,” a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to the “Greenpeace Foundation”
1973 – Wings release “Red Rose Speedway” in UK
1990 – Latvia’s parliament votes 138-0 (1 abstention) for Independence
2013 – Harper Lee files a lawsuit against a literary agent over the copyright of “To Kill a Mockingbird”