610 - Heraclius' fleet takes Constantinople
1875 - Palace Hotel on Market Street opens in San Francisco
1887 - 1st US National Championship Women's Tennis, Philadelphia Cricket Club: Ellen Hansell wins inaugural event; beats Laura Knight 6-1, 6-0
1944 - Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg's musical "Bloomer Girl" premieres in NYC
1972 - Herbert Mullin 1st kills, claiming it was to prevent earthquakes
1975 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1991 - The first official version of the Linux kernel, version 0.02, is released.
2002 - For the first time in its 42-year old history, the Anaheim Angels win a post-season series by beating the Yankees, 9-5 to take the ALDS, 3-1
2014 - French F1 driver Jules Bianchi collides with recovery vehicle during Japanese Grand Prix, dies 10 months later; first F1 death due to racing accident in 21 years (Ayrton Senna 1994)
2020 - India COVID-19 death toll passes 100,000, with 6.6 million known cases, 3rd highest death toll in the world behind the US and Brazil
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