1333 - Flood of the Arno River, causing massive damage in Florence as recorded by the Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani
1910 - Start of South Africa's 1st F-C game in Aust (v S Aust). It rained
1968 - WTOG TV channel 44 in St Petersburg-Tampa, FL (IND) 1st broadcast
2003 - "Shock'n Y'all" 8th studio album by Toby Keith is released (Billboard Album of the Year 2004)
2021 - WHO says Europe is again the Epicenter for COVID-19 after cases rise 50% in a month
1765 - Pierre-Simon Girard, French mathematician and engineer (fluid mechanics), born in Caen, France (d. 1836)
1818 - Alexander Lawton, Brigadier General in the Confederate Army, born in Beaufort District, South Carolina (d. 1896)
1904 - Walter Bauer, German Canadian writer, born in Merseburg (d. 1976)
1950 - Markie Post, American actress (Night Court, 1984-92 - "Christine"; There’s Something About Mary), born in Palo Alto, California (d. 2021)
1978 - John Grabow, American baseball player, born in Arcadia, California
1411 - Khalil Sultan, ruler of Transoxonia (b. 1384)
1847 - (Jacob Ludwig) Felix Mendelssohn [Bartholdy], German composer and pianist (Italian Symphony; Songs Without Words), dies after a series of strokes at 38
1869 - George Peabody, American-British entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded the Peabody Trust and the Peabody Institute, dies at 74
1987 - Raphael Soyer, Russian-born American artist (Depression scenes in NYC), dies at 87
2022 - Dow Finsterwald, American golfer (PGA Championship 1958; PGA Player of the Year 1958), dies at 93
British archaeologist Howard Carter and his workmen discover a step leading to the tomb of King Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt.