1666 – Samuel Pepys reports on 1st blood transfusion (between dogs)
1941 – British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sank in Mediterranean, having been torpedoed by a German submarine the day before
1965 – “Baker Street” closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 313 performances
1984 – Astronauts aboard “Discovery” pluck a 2nd satellite from orbit
1985 – Holmfriour Karlsdottir of Iceland, 22, crowned 35th Miss World
2001 – War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters takeover the capital Kabul.
1863 – Leo H A Baekeland, Belgian/US chemist (bakelite)
1878 – Julie Manet, French painter, daughter of Berthe Morisot (d. 1966)
1930 – Jay Migliori, saxophonist (Supersax), born in Erie, Pennsylvania (d. 2001)
1945 – Paul Hirsch, American film editor
1959 – Bryan Stevenson, American social justice activist and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, born in Milton, Delaware
1979 – Mavie Hörbiger, German actress
784 – Alberik I, bishop of Utrecht, dies
1691 – Tosa Mitsuoki, Japanese painter (b. 1617)
1746 – Georg Steller, German naturalist (b. 1709)
1794 – Pieter Nieuwland, prodigy/”Dutch Newton”, dies at 30
1817 – Policarpa Salavarrieta, Colombian revolutionary (b. 1795)
1829 – Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist (b. 1763)