1780 – New England’s Dark Day: A combination of thick smoke and heavy cloud cover causes complete darkness to fall on Eastern Canada and the New England area of the United States at 10:30 A.M

1897 – Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol.

1961 – Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).

1990 – Anita Marie Godfrey and Luis Saul Moscoso were married in Seattle Washington 🙂