70 – Roman army under General Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem
1159 – Ottaviano de Montecello is elected Antipope Victor IV
1909 – Eugene Lefebvre becomes the first pilot to die in an aircraft while test piloting a new French-built Wright biplane at Juvisy
1927 – University of Minas Gerais is founded in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, by Governor Antônio Carlos
1936 – The last surviving member of the marsupial thylacine species, Benjamin, dies alone in his cage at Hobart Zoo, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
1940 – Treaty of Craiova: Romania loses Southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria
1972 – American athletes Vincent Matthews and Wayne Collett finish 1-2 in the 400 m at the Munich Olympics, act casually on the medal stand, and do not face the flag during the anthem, resulting in a lifetime ban from the Olympics
1981 – Cleveland Browns’ Brian Sipe sets a club record with 57 pass attempts