1430 – Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy visits Brussels
1907 – Canadian Interprovincial Rugby Football Union (IRFU) plays its first game; Montreal defeats Toronto 17-8 in Montreal
1915 – Detroit Tigers speedster Ty Cobb steals his 96th base of the season in a 5-0 loss to the Cleveland Indians; it stands as an MLB record until 1962 (Maury Wills, 104)
1945 – “Meet the Press” premieres on radio
1957 – Yugoslav dissident Milovan Djilas is sentenced to 7 years
1965 – Chuck Linster performs 6,006 consecutive push-ups
2001 – Barry Bonds hits his 71st and 72nd home runs in an 11-10 loss against the LA Dodgers at Pacific Bell Park, breaking Mark McGwire’s MLB single-season home run record
2015 – Floods in South Carolina, a “1,000-year storm,” result in 12 deaths and the failure of 9 dams