1915 – Gil Anderson races auto (165.1 km record) in Sheepshead Bay, New York
1941 – Coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
1961 – Tanganyika, in east Africa, becomes independent within British Commonwealth
1971 – Japanese Emperor Hirohito visits the Netherlands
1973 – Israel announces loss of Bar-Lev defense line in Suez Canal
1975 – Emperor Hirohito of Japan visits San Francisco
1981 – Abolition of capital punishment in France.
1987 – Japanese bank buys “Lady McGill” stamp for $1,100,000
2007 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at an all-time high
2015 – Selena Gomez releases her studio album “Revival”, goes to #1 on Billboard 200