1655 - Battle of Porto Farina: English fleet defeats Barbary corsairs in Tunis
1974 - Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth's home run record by hitting his 714th in Cincinnati against Jack Billingham
1983 - 45th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: North Carolina State beats Houston, 54-52; Wolfpack win with buzzer-beating dunk by Lorenzo Charles off a desperation 30 foot shot from Dereck Whittenburg
2022 - Economist Rodrigo Chaves elected President of Costa Rica defeating current president José María Figueres
2022 - Ukrainian government begins a war crimes investigation after 410 civilians found killed after the withdrawal of Russian forces from around Kyiv

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1802 - Dorothea Dix, American pioneering nurse and social activist who created the first American mental asylums, born in Hampden, Maine (d. 1887)
1933 - Frits Bolkestein, Dutch politician (People's Party for Freedom and Democracy), born in Amsterdam
1953 - Susan Alcorn, American pedal steel guitarist and avant garde composer, born in Allentown, Pennsylvania (d. 2025)
1977 - Omarr Smith, American football defensive back, born in Chicago, Illinois
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