1643 - Battle at Roundway Down: Royalists beat parliamentary armies
1668 - Van Marco Cesti's opera "Il Pomo d'Oro" (the Golden Apple or Tomato) premieres in Vienna
1865 - P. T. Barnum's museum burns down
1978 - Russian dissidents Ginsburg, Piatkus and Sjtsjaranki sentenced to work camps
1980 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1982 - Iran launches first attack into Iraq
1986 - Zola Budd and Annette Cowley are banned from the Commonwealth Games, a direct consequence of Britain's refusal to support economic sanctions against the apartheid government of South Africa
1988 - Red Sox replace manager John McNamara with Joe Morgan
1996 - Cigar wins record 16th straight win, (ties Citation in 1940)
2015 - Sandra Bland is found dead in Waller County jail, Texas after spending weekend in jail after a traffic offence. Her family disputes her supposed suicide
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