1660 – Isaack B Fubine of Savoy, in The Hague, patents macaroni
1756 – Burmese King Alaungphaya sends his Golden Letter on rolled gold to King George II of Great Britain detailing trade proposals
1862 – Much of Enschede, Netherlands, destroyed by fire
1969 – 2nd ABA championship: Oakland Oaks beat Indiana Pacers, 4 games to 1
1995 – Revival of Budd Schulberg’s stage drama “On the Waterfront”, adapted from his screenplay for the 1954 film, closes at the Atkinson Theater, NYC, after 8 performances
2002 – A China Northern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea, killing 112 people.
2012 – Paeleoclimatological research claims dinosaur flatulence may have warmed the earth
2015 – British General Elections: Conservative Party win outright majority and David Cameron returns as Prime Minister
2021 – Former police officer and suspected serial killer Hugo Ernesto Osorio Chávez arrested in Chalchuapa, El Salvador, after a mass grave of 15-40 bodies found at his house
2023 – Syria is readmitted into the influential Arab League, more than ten year after being thrown out for repressing pro-democracy protesters