1634 – Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun, France.
1686 – Cassini reports seeing a satellite orbiting Venus
1896 – Adolph Ochs (39) buys NY Times
1926 – England regain Ashes with 5th Test Cricket win, to take series 1-0
1944 – Paris rail workers strike against Nazi occupiers
1968 – Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Holiday Inn Golf Classic
1986 – WYSP-FM Philadelphia begins simulcasting Howard Stern Show
1987 – Ohio nurse Donald Harvey sentence to triple life (poisoned 24)
1987 – Houston Oiler Earl Campbell, retires from NFL
1991 – Hurricane Bob hits NC with 115 MPH wind
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