1490 – Anna of Brittany announces that all those who would ally with the king of France will be considered guilty of the crime of lese-majesty.
1843 – Gaetano Donizetti’s opera “Don Pasquale,” premieres in Paris
1883 – Ontario Rugby Football Union (forerunner of CFL) forms
1936 – Grimmett becomes world record wicket taker with no 190 v South Africa
1941 – Resistance fighters counter d’Estienne d’Orves/Jan Doornik, 1st meet
1945 – US jeep-aircraft carrier Ommaney Bay sinks after Japanese kamikaze attack
1969 – A People’s Democracy march between Belfast and Derry is repeatedly attacked by loyalists and off-duty police officers
1981 – British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, the “Yorkshire Ripper”
1986 – David Boon’s second Test century, 131 v India at Adelaide
1986 – NCAA basketball’s David Robinson blocks a record 14 shots
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