1313 – Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria at the Battle of Gamelsdorf.
1580 – Spanish troops land in Ireland
1858 – 1st performance of NY Symphony Orchestra
1907 – The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
1922 – Frederick Soddy wins the 1921 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (announced in 1922 due to a technicality)
1925 – German NSDAP (Nazi party) forms Schutzstaffel (SS)
1944 – Walcheren purged of Nazi troops
1966 – “Let’s Sing Yiddish” opens at Brooks Atkinson NYC for 107 performances
1968 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1990 – New democratic constitution is issued in Nepal.