1895 – England beats Australia to win one of the best cricket series ever, 3-2
1945 – Chinese 38th division occupies Lashio
1966 – Barry Sadler’s “Ballad of the Green Berets” becomes #1 (13 weeks)
1972 – Keswick to Penrith railway officially closes
1975 – Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.
1976 – European Men’s Figure Skating Championship in Gothenburg, Sweden won by John Curry (Great Britain)
1981 – France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
1985 – Yul Brynner appears in his 4,500th performance of “The King and I”
2013 – Microsoft is fined €561 by the Euro Commission for the EU for not providing option to chose an alternative web browser
2020 – Russia refuses to reduce oil production over COVID-19 fears, breaking with Saudi Arabia and OPEC and prompting a price war