1636 – Battle at Wittstock, Brandenburg: Sweden beat Ferdinand III
1824 – Mexico becomes a republic
1921 – League of Nations refuses to assist starving Russians
1959 – Dmitri Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1 premieres at the Large Hall of the Leningrad Conservatory with the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
1964 – LPGA Championship Women’s Golf, Stardust CC; Mary Mills shoots final round 69 to win first of her 2 LPGA C’ships, 2 strokes ahead of defending champion Mickey Wright
1971 – USSR performs underground nuclear test
2001 – Siberia Airlines Flight 1812: a Sibir Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian S-200 missile. 78 people are killed.
2004 – SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight
2009 – Senior Players Championship Men’s Golf, Baltimore CC: Jay Haas wins his third and final Champions Tour major title by 1 stroke from Tom Watson
2017 – Chinese pianist Lang Lang plays Carneige Hall one-handed due to injury with 14 year-old Maxim Lando playing his left hand for Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue”
