1692 – Court of Oyer and Terminer convened for Salem witch trials dissolved
1905 – Hottentot chief Hendrik Witbooi fataly injured
1939 – Golden Gate International Exposition closes (1st closure)
1950 – British Chancellor of the Exchequer (Minister of Finance) Stafford Cripps resigns
1956 – International zone of Tangier returns to Morocco
1972 – Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open
1984 – Orlando Pizzolato (2:14:53) and Greta Weitz (2:29:30) win NY Marathon
1988 – China announces a herbal male contraceptive
1995 – Sunday NY News increases price from $1.00 to $1.25
2002 – Ho Chi Minh City ITC Inferno, a fire destroys a luxurious department store with 1500 people shopping. Over 60 people died and over 100 are missing. It is the deadliest disaster in Vietnam during peacetime.
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