1666 – Great Fire of London ends, leaving 13,200 houses destroyed and 8 dead
1901 – National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, better known as Minor League Baseball is formed at the Leland Hotel in Chicago
1949 – US National Championship Women’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Defending champion Margaret Osborne duPont beats fellow American Doris Hart 6-4, 6-1
1962 – Cubs Ken Hubbs sets 2nd base record for consecutive errorless games at 78 and consecutive errorless chances (418), he errors in the 4th
1979 – Earl of Mountbatten’s Ceremonial Funeral held in Westminster Abbey, London
1986 – NASA launches DoD-1 (classified Department of Defense satellite)
1986 – 3rd MTV Video Music Awards: Whitney Houston wins
1997 – Orioles beat Yankes 13-9 in longest 9 inning game
2012 – 54 people are killed and 50 injured after a firecracker factory explodes in Nadu
2019 – South African women march on parliament to protest violence against women after a month when 30 were killed by their spouses