1809 – Dartmoor Prison in England opens to house French prisoners of war
1906 – Tsar Nicolas II of Russia dismisses his moderate Prime Minister Witte and appoints Ivan Goremykin, a conservative bureaucrat
1950 – Dutch PM Malan recognizes South-Africa but not People’s Republic of China
1956 – US Lab detects high-temperature microwave radiation from Venus
1979 – 14th Academy of Country Music Awards: Kenny Rogers and Barbara Mandrell win
1985 – US performs underground nuclear test “Towanda” at Nevada Test Site, with an estimated 150 ton yield
1993 – “Tango Passion” closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 5 performances
1998 – 124th Kentucky Derby: Kent Desormeaux aboard Real Quiet wins in 2:02.20
2011 – E. coli O104:H4 outbreak strikes Europe, mostly in Germany, leaving more than 30 people dead and many others sick
2019 – Drone delivers a kidney for transplant surgery in Baltimore, Maryland, for the first time
