1512 – French troops under Gaston de Foix rescue Bologna, which was under siege from a combined Papal-Spanish army
1644 – 1st US livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut
1782 – British garrison in Menorca (western Mediterranean) surrenders to French and Spanish fleet as part of the American Revolutionary War
1893 – Alfred Naess skates world record 500m (49.4 sec)
1941 – Dutch Premier De Geer returns from Lisbon to Netherlands
1944 – “Captain American” serial film premieres starring Dick Purcell, first appearance of a Marvel superhero outside a comic
1953 – Sweet rationing imposed in WWII ends in Britain
1976 – Last day of Test cricket for West Indian spin bowler Lance Gibbs and Australian opening batsman Ian Redpath, 6th Test in Melbourne
1986 – Corazon Aquino and Ferdinand Marcos appear on “Nightline”
1994 – Medgar Evers’ murderer Byron De La Beckwith sentenced to life, in Jackson, Mississippi, 30 years after the crime