1515 - Battle at Marignano ends after two days in a French and Venetian victory over a Swiss army
1957 - Ira Levin's stage comedy "No Time for Sergeants," based on Mac Hyman's novel, starring Andy Griffith and featuring Don Knott, closes at the Alvin Theatre in NYC after 796 performances
1960 - Joseph-Desiré Mobutu launches a bloodless coup d'état in the Congo, declaring President Joseph Kasa-Vubu and Patrice Lumumba to be "neutralised" and establishing a new government of university graduates
1964 - WCVE TV channel 23 in Richmond, Virginia (PBS) begins broadcasting
1989 - Calgary Flames become the first NHL team to play in USSR, win 4-2

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