326 – Old St. Peter’s Basilica consecrated in Rome (stood 4th – 16th century), later replaced by current Basilica
1938 – Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
1951 – British troops occupy Ismailiya, Egypt
1955 – Bell X-2 rocket plane taken up for 1st powered flight
1979 – Ayatollah Khomeini charges US ambassador/embassy espionage
1987 – Congressional committee reports on Iran-Contra affair
1861 – Dorothy Dix, pseudonym of US journalist Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer (d. 1951)
1895 – Ernst Levy, Swiss composer, born in Basel (d. 1981)
1939 – Tom Johnson, American composer (Nine Bells), born in Greeley, Colorado
1953 – Alan Moore, British comic book writer and novelist
1955 – Jake Brockman, British musician (Echo and the Bunnymen), born in Borneo (d. 2009)
1974 – Chloë Sevigny, American actress
1559 – Cuthbert Tunstall, English churchman (b. 1474)
1929 – Henricus Van de Wetering, archbishop Utrecht (1895-1929), dies at 78
1946 – John King, cricketer (scored 60 and 4 in only Test Eng v Aus 1909), dies
1969 – Leon Jongen, Belgian composer, dies at 85
1994 – Chris Joyce, photographer, dies at 51
2015 – Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby union player and the youngest ever All Black, dies of a heart attack linked to kidney disease at 40