1877 – 1st Westminster Dog Show held
1907 – Boston Doves pitcher “Big Jeff” Pfeffer no-hits Cincinnati Reds, 6-0 at South End Grounds, Boston
1929 – Jan Mayen island, 500 km NNE of Iceland, incorporated into Norway
1956 – John Osborne’s “Look Back in Anger” premieres in London
1994 – Jim Cartwright’s play “The Rise and Fall of Little Voice” closes at Neil Simon Theater, NYC after 9 performances
2018 – Largest-ever wave at 23.8m recorded in the South Hemisphere at Campbell Island by New Zealand scientists
2018 – Ebola outbreak declared in north-west Democratic Republic of Congo with 2 confirmed cases and 17 deaths
2019 – Singapore passes sweeping “anti-fake news” laws bill
2021 – Bombings outside a school in Kabul, Afghanistan, kill at least 50 people, mostly teenage girls, amid growing fears about US military withdrawal
2021 – Indian Medical Association calls for a national lockdown, criticizing President Modi’s government’s response as recorded COVID-19 deaths pass 4,000 a day