1192 – English king Richard I the Lion hearted, captured by by Leopold V, Duke of Austria
1676 – Benedetto Odescalchi elected as Pope Innocent XI
1837 – Charles Tiffany founded his jewelry and china stores
1893 – Frank Duryea drives 1st US made gas propelled vehicle (car)
1979 – Two RAF Hawker Siddeley Harrier jump-jets from RAF Wittering collide over the UK. Both pilots ejected safely. One of the jets broke up in midair and fell harmlessly into a field but the other dropped onto the centre of Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, destroying two houses and a bungalow. Several people were injured in the accident and three people were killed.
1980 – Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA ERA Real Estate Golf Classic
1982 – NFL players begin a 57 day strike
1983 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1997 – Tim Herron wins Texas Golf Open shooting a 271
2001 – AZF chemical plant explodes in Toulouse, France, killing 29 people
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