1599 – The city of Natal, Brazil, is founded.
1741 – Astronomer Anders Celsius introduces Centigrade temperature scale
1758 – Return of Halley’s comet 1st sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch
1862 – 40,000 watch Union army men play baseball at Hilton Head, SC
1868 – Despite bitter opposition, President A Johnson grants unconditional pardon to all persons involved in Southern rebellion (Civil War)
1928 – NSW (v Vic) go from 8-74 to 9-113 to be 9-367 at stumps
1930 – Slinger Nitschke scores 142 SA v Qld at Adelaide before 5,422
1979 – USSR airlifts invasionary army to Afghanistan
1990 – “The Godfather Part III” directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Al Pacino, Diane Keaton and Andy Garcia premieres
2012 – 27 people are killed after an Antonov An-72 plane crashes near Shymkent, Kazakhstan
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