1733 – First international boxing match: Local fighter Bob Whittaker beats “The Venetian Gondolier”, Tito di Carni at James Figg’s academy amphitheatre in Marylebone, London
1902 – Zulu assault at Holkrantz, South Africa
1950 – “Great to Be Alive” closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 52 performances
1957 – Last broadcast of “I Love Lucy” on CBS-TV
1966 – Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors Murders in England
1967 – Maureen Wilton runs female world record marathon (3:15:22)
1968 – Street battle between students and troops in Paris, 1,000 injured
1994 – Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait sets fire to the couch on The Tonight Show
1997 – US Army Staff Sgt Delmar Simpson gets 25-year sentence in military prison for 18 counts of rape, and other offenses (part of the Aberdeen Scandal)
2002 – “The Good Stuff” single released by Kenny Chesney (Billboard Song of the Year 2002)