1573 – Don Frederik disbands siege of Alkmaar
1651 – English parliament passes Navigation Act
1837 – Steamboat “Home” sinks off Okracoke NC killing 100
1926 – Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Royal Colonial Institution
1961 – Tanganyika becomes independent within British Commonwealth
1961 – US members of communist party obliged to report themselves to police
1963 – Dam in Piave valley Italy, breaks’ about 2,000 die
1980 – Nobel prize for literature awarded to Czeslaw Milosz
1989 – 27th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Spain in Tokyo Japan (3-0)
1990 – Saddam Hussein threatens to hit Israel with a new missile
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