1852 ― First intercollegiate rowing race, Harvard beats Yale by 4 lengths
1914 ― Germany invades Belgium, declares war on France in WWI
1952 ― Fifteenth Olympic Games close in Helsinki, Finland
1960 ― Niger gains independence from France
1963 ― Beatles final performance at the Cavern Club in Liverpool
1970 ― Mairiam Hargrave of Yorkshire passes her driving test on 40th try
1973 ― Flash fire kills 51 at amusement park (Isle of Man, U.K.)
1975 ― 500 drown when two river boats collide and sink in China's West River
1983 ― John Sain of South Bend, Indiana, builds 3.91-meter house of cards
1988 ― Skip Storch swims 246 kilometers of Hudson River from Albany to New York City
1989 ― Lawrence Delisle drives his four kids into river
1990 ― Radio Kuwait goes off the air, due to the Iraqi invasion, U.S. announces commitment of Naval forces to Gulf regions