1548 – La Paz, Bolivia, is founded
1801 – Pope Pius VII and 1st consul Napoleon sign concord
1935 – First automatic parking meter in the United States is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1965 – Mont Blanc Road tunnel between France and Italy opens
1966 – David Heneker’s musical “Half a Sixpence”, starring Tommy Steels, and based on H.G. Well’s 1905 novel “Kipps”, closes at Broadhurst Theater, NYC, after 511 performances
1988 – San Antonio (Texas League) beats Jackson 1-0 in 26 innings
1988 – Landmark Japanese animated cyberpunk manga film “Akira” released, directed by Katsuhiro Otomo
1995 – Bob Telson, Graciela Daniele and Jim Lewis’s musical “Chronicles of a Death Foretold”, based on Gabriel García Márquez’s 1981 novella, closes at Plymouth Theater, NYC, after 55 performances
2007 – An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and aftershock of 6.6 occurs off the Niigata coast, Japan, killing 8 people with at least 800 injured and damaging a nuclear power plant. See 2007 Chūetsu offshore earthquake.
2017 – US Open Women’s Golf, Trump National GC: Park Sung-hyun wins by 2 shots from fellow South Korean Choi Hye-jin
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