1679 – Habeaus Corpus Act (strengthening person’s right to challenge unlawful arrest and imprisonment) passes in England
1916 – Groundbreaking begins on Hugh Grant Circle in Bronx
1920 – Tatar ASSR forms in Russian SFSR
1929 – 2nd Ryder Cup: Britain-Ireland, 7-5 at Moortown, England
1930 – The 1,046-foot (319-meter) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.
1944 – Japanese advance in Hangkhou China
1944 – Jean-Paul Sartres’ “Huis Clos” premieres in Paris
1950 – Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Wallace Stevens
1955 – Red Buttons Show, last airs on NBC-TV
1999 – The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
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