1856 – Covent Garden Opera House, London, destroyed in a fire
1915 – World War I: The LZ 33, a zeppelin, is damaged by enemy fire and stranded south of Ostend.
1921 – The US warns Costa Rica and Panama to settle disputes peacefully
1944 – 1st performance of Walter Piston’s 2nd Symphony
1948 – US rocket flies record 4800 kph to 126km height
1978 – Landsat 3 launched from Vandenberg AFB, California
1979 – Iran resumes petroleum exports
1982 – Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus sends back data
2015 – -8th Islamic State militants ransack and destroy ancient cities of Nimrud, Hatra and Dur-Sharrukin in Iraq
2019 – Second-ever person “cured” of HIV after stem cell transplant treatment in London, England results published in “Nature”