1424 – Scottish King James I returns to Scotland after 18 years of detention at the English court
1609 – Daimyo (Lord) of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa
1958 – Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest ever non-nuclear controlled explosions
1961 – Barbra Streisand appears on “Jack Paar Show”
1961 – Dutch governor Platteel installs New Guinea Council
1971 – Fran Phipps is 1st woman to reach North Pole
1990 – NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 2-1 in 1st game of preliminary
1992 – Game 2 of Mayor Challenge – NY Yankees sweep NY Mets 6-5 at Shea
1994 – “Jackie Mason Politically Incorrect” opens at Golden NYC for 347 performances
2013 – Japan’s Nikkei 225 reaches its highest level in five years