1794 – 1st issue of Herald of Rutland, VT published
1864 – Pope Pius IX publishes encyclical Quanta cura (“Syllabus errorum”)
1914 – Irving Berlin’s musical “Watch your Step” premieres in NYC
1921 – Eamon de Valera publicly repudiates Anglo-Irish Treaty
1949 – Chinese Nationalist government moves from Chinese mainland to Formosa
1951 – AL alters its restrictions on night games, adopting NL’s suspended game rule and lifting its ban on lights for Sunday games
1959 – President Eisenhower watches Pakistan v Aust Test Cricket at Karachi
1981 – France performs nuclear test
1993 – 4th Billboard Music Awards: Whitney Houston, The Bodyguard Soundtrack win
2010 – With the second launch of the SpaceX Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first privately held company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft.