1909 - Middlesex beat Gloucester (Bristol) at cricket by an innings and 31 runs in a single day
1916 - Philadelphia Athletic's Bullet Joe Bush no-hits Cleveland, 5-0
1956 - KREY TV channel 10 in Montrose, CO (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting
1961 - Official International Hockey Hall of Fame opens in Toronto
1967 - Beatles, Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull meet Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
1971 - Orioles' Don Buford struck out 5 times in a game
2012 - 17 villagers in Afghanistan's Kajaki district are beheaded by an unknown organization
2014 - Burger King agrees to purchase Canadian donut chain Tim Hortons for $11.4 billion
2017 - Women's Rugby World Cup: New Zealand Black Ferns defeat England 41-32 in the final in Belfast
2020 - Dutch author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (29) is the youngest to win the International Booker prize for their debut novel "The Discomfort of Evening"
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