1874 – Dutch 2nd Chamber passes child labor law
1915 – German U-20 captures and sinks Britsih schooner Earl of Lathom
1948 – 1st squadron of jet aircraft aboard a carrier
1952 – Pulitzer prize awarded to Herman Wouk for this novel “The Caine Mutiny”
1955 – West Germany is granted full sovereignty by its three occupying powers
1964 – Separatists riot in Quebec
1987 – France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
2008 – American/Columbia Records releases “Home Before Dark”, the twenty-seventh studio album by Neil Diamond; tops charts in US, UK and NZ
2018 – Electric cigarette explodes killing a man in St. Petersburg, Florida, first death from a vaping product
2022 – WHO study of excess deaths worldwide says 15 million more people have died than normal, far above the official COVID-19 death toll of 6 million