1576 – Henry of Navarre (later Henry IV of France) abjures Catholicism at Tours
1885 – News of the fall of Khartoum reaches London
1885 – King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal colonial possession
1963 – Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars
1969 – US population reaches 200 million
1980 – Egyptian parliament votes to end boycott of Israel
1996 – British supermarket chains stock genetically modified tomato puree – the first GM food to be sold in the country
1997 – O.J. Simpson found liable in the deaths of Ron Goldman and Nicole Simpson in a civil court action
2008 – A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States leaves at least 58 dead, the most since the May 31, 1985 outbreak that killed 88.
2013 – UK House of Commons votes in favour of same-sex marriage
2014 – US President Obama and journalists globally call for the release of 3 Al Jazeera journalists detained in Egypt
2016 – Computer hackers try to steal 1 billion from Federal Reserve Bank of New York using Bangladesh banking codes, steal 81 million before a typo alerts authorities
2019 – Pope Francis admits for the first time that clerics have sexually abused nuns
Film & TV:
1936 – “Modern Times”, silent film directed by, written by and starring Charlie Chaplin, is released
2019 – China’s first science fiction blockbuster, “The Wandering Earth” premieres, directed by Frant Gwo, based on a story by Liu Cixin
Music:
1887 – Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Otello” premieres at La Scala in Italy, Verdi’s first new opera for over 15 years
Sport:
1972 – Bob Douglas is 1st African American elected to Basketball Hall of Fame
