1669 – Siege of Candia on Crete ends with the Venetian fortress surrendering to the Ottomans, the second-longest siege in history (began 1648)
1819 – American inventor Thomas Blanchard patents lathe
1944 – Gen. von Zangen’s 15th Army escapes from Zeeland
1961 – USSR performs a nuclear test at Kapustin Yar, USSR
1963 – Historian Lee Allen says the Cleveland Indians-Washington Senators game is the 100,000th in Major League Baseball history
1982 – Dutch Internal Minister Mr. M. Red assigns BVD to spy on communists
1982 – Jerry Lewis’s 17th annual Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $28,415,339
1986 – Jozef Pribilinec sets a speed walking world record time (15,447 km)