1905 - US Open Men's Golf, Myopia Hunt GC: Willie Anderson wins his third consecutive Open title, and his record fourth overall, two strokes ahead of runner-up Alex Smith
1968 - KMTC (now KDEB) TV channel 27 in Springfield, MO (IND) begins broadcasting
1987 - US TV series "Full House," starring Bob Saget and John Stamos, premieres
1993 - A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia
2013 - Angela Merkel and the Christian Democrats win a third term with their best result since 1990 in the German federal elections

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1601 - Anna of Austria, Spanish princess, Austrian archduchess, Queen of France as wife of Louis XIII and regent of France (1643-51) for her son Louis XIV, born in Benavente Palace, Valladolid, Spain (d. 1666)
1822 - Eppa Hunton, American representative and Brigadier-General who fought in most ANV campaigns, born in Warrenton, Virginia (d. 1908)
1931 - Fay Weldon [Franklin Birkinshaw], British feminist, novelist (Praxis; The Lives and Loves of a She-Devil), playwright, and screenwriter, born in Birmingham, England (d. 2023)