1215 – Pope Innocent III declares the Magna Carta invalid
1217 – Battle of South Foreland: English fleet beats France
1349 – Black Death Massacre: 6,000 Jews, blamed for spreading the Bubonic Plague, are killed in Mainz, Electorate of Mainz; part of a wave of pogroms across Western Europe
1981 – Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 yrs to life for John Lennon’s murder
1991 – Silky Stallone, wins the Cane Pace at Yonkers Raceway
1993 – Padres scores 14 in 1st vs Cardinals
2008 – Dániel Varga and Péter Biros score 3 goals each as Hungary wins the men’s water polo gold medal at the Beijing Olympics; third consecutive Olympic gold medal
2014 – Nurse William Pooley flies back to the UK for emergency treatment after contracting Ebola virus after attempting to treat patients in Sierra Leone
2019 – US adventurer Victor Vescovo is the first person to visit the deepest point of every ocean when he reaches Molloy Hole, in the Arctic
2021 – Beyoncé becomes first black woman and third person to wear the Tiffany Diamond in an advertising campaign for the company alongside her husband Jay-Z
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