1922 - Demonstration for a Dutch University in Ghent
1967 - ATS-3 launched by US to take first pictures of full Earth disc
1988 - Japan beats MLB all stars 2-1 in Tokyo (Game 1 of 7)
1988 - France performs nuclear test
2018 - BBC opens its largest news bureau outside the UK in Nairobi, Kenya with 300 journalists

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1819 - Josef Rudolf Zavrtal, Czech composer, born in Polepy, Kingdom of Bohemia (d. 1893)
1891 - Mary Dorna [Mary Jeanette Tenkink-Stoppelman], Dutch author, born in Amsterdam (d. 1971)
1900 - Martin Dies, Jr., American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas), born in Colorado City, Texas (d. 1972)
1948 - Charles Bradley, American RandB and funk singer, known as 'The Screaming Eagle of Soul', born in Gainesville, Florida (d. 2017)
1983 - (Anne) Leilehua Lanzilotti, Kānaka Maoli-American violinist and contemporary classical composer, born in Honolulu, Hawaii

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1772 - Pieter Steyn, Dutch grand pensionary (1749-72), dies at 66
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2001 - Barry Horne, a British animal liberation activist.