1919 – German Workers’ Party forms, precursor to the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazi)
1927 – MLB Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis begins 3-day public hearing on charges that 4 games played between Chicago and Detroit in 1917 had been thrown to White Sox
1929 – Coup by King Alexander in South Slavia
1960 – Continental League, a proposed third baseball major league, gets an assurance of congressional support from NY Senator Kenneth Keating
1969 – “Maggie Flynn” closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 82 performances
1976 – Cambodia is renamed “Democratic Kampuchea”
1992 – Revival of Arthur Miller’s dramatic play “The Crucible” closes at Belasco Theater, NYC, after 32 performances
1993 – Washington state executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (first legal hanging in America since 1965)
1996 – Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone
2018 – Kitwe in Zambia bans shaking hands and the sale of fresh food in attempt to prevent a cholera outbreak