1907 – Canadian Tommy Burns retains his world heavyweight boxing title after beating Philadelphia Jack O’Brien on points in 20 rounds in Los Angeles, California
1959 – Little Caesars Pizza is founded by Mike Ilitch and his wife Marian Ilitch in Garden City, Michigan
1969 – Cambodia recognizes the German Democratic Republic (East Germany)
1970 – Thousands of students protest against the Vietnam War following the Kent State University shootings in Ohio
1973 – Wounded Knee Occupation ends after 10 weeks as 200 Oglala Lakota of the American Indian Movement surrender the South Dakota hamlet
1976 – The rollercoaster Revolution (roller coaster), the first steel coaster with a vertical flip, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain
1988 – François Mitterrand elected President of France
2013 – 33 people are killed after an overloaded bus falls into a river in Himachal Pradesh, India
2018 – President Trump pulls the US out of the multilateral Iran nuclear deal
2024 – New York has more millionaires than any other city in the world, one in 24, with 744 centi-millionaires worth more than 100 million and 60 billionaires according to new ranking