1750 - Halifax, Nova Scotia, is almost completely destroyed by fire.
1863 - Battle at Green River, Ky (Morgan's Ohio Raid)
1902 - British premier Lord Salisbury resigns
1961 - Gene Kiniski beats Verne Gagne in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ
1982 - Italy beats West Germany 3-1 for soccer's 12th World Cup in Madrid
1984 - Britain's MusicBox begins satellite transmission to Europe
1662 - Maximilian II Emanuel, elect of Bayern
1898 - Hendrik J Pos, Dutch philosopher/CEO (Committee of Watchfulness)
1899 - E. B. White, writer (Charlotte's Web, Elements of Style), (d. 1985)
1954 - Butch Reed, American professional wrestler
1964 - Kyrill, Prince of Preslav, titular Bulgarian royal family
1982 - Chris Cooley, American football player
1174 - Amalrik I, [Morri], French King of Jerusalem, dies
1957 - Aga Khan III, Pakistani 48th Shia Iman, dies at 79
1989 - Laurence Olivier, acting great (Hamlet), dies at 82
1993 - Sergey Vozovikov, cosmonaut, dies during underwater test at 34
1994 - Alan David Melville, polymath, dies at 82
2009 - Arturo Gatti, Italian-Canadian professional boxer (b. 1972)
Pensacola Christian College prohibits sex, dancing, witchcraft, astrology, and more. The school also has segregated elevators and stairways.
Roman Emperor Augustus witnessed a man attempt to feed a slave to lamprey eels as a punishment for breaking a cup. Augustus freed the slave and had the rest of the man’s cups broken.
Kansas serial killer, the BTK Killer, installed alarms as a part of his job, and many of his clients had booked the company to stop BTK from ever entering their homes, unaware that BTK himself was installing them.
During an experiment sponsored by the Quaker Oats corporation, 73 mentally disabled children were fed radioactive oatmeal in order to track “how nutrients were digested”. The children were told they were joining a science club in exchange for larger portions of food and trips to baseball games.
