1934 - Jean Piccard and Jeanette Ridlon attain a record balloon height of 10.9 miles (17.5 km) over Lake Erie
1973 - Arab oil embargo extended to the Netherlands
2006 - "Irreplaceable" single released by Beyonce (Soul Train Music Awards Best RandB/Soul Single 2007, Billboard Song of the Year 2007)
2018 - Freddie Mercury bio film "Bohemian Rhapsody" directed by Bryan Singer, starring Rami Malek (Best Actor Academy Awards 2019) premieres in London
2019 - All Star point guard Kyrie Irving pours in 50 points, setting a new NBA record for points on debut with a new team as his Brooklyn Nets go down 127-126 at home to the Minnesota Timberwolves
1869 - John Heisman, American football coach (legalised forward pass, originated the center-snap; Heisman Trophy named after him), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1936)
1921 - Betty Bennett, American jazz and big band singer (Claude Thornhill, Charlie Ventura, Benny Goodman), born in Lincoln, Nebraska (d. 2020)
1928 - June Bacon-Bercey, American weatherwoman credited as the first trained African-American female meteorologist to appear on television (WGR-TV), born in Wichita, Kansas (d. 2019)
1933 - Hans Weilbächer, German soccer midfielder (1 cap West Germany; Eintracht Frankfurt e.V 241 games), born in Hattersheim am Main, Germany (d. 2022)
1949 - Nick Tosches, American writer (bio of Jerry Lee Lewis), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 2019)
1782 - Joseph Riepel, Austrian-born German composer, dies at 73
1928 - François Victor Alphonse Aulard, French historian, dies at 79
1949 - Bill Traylor, African-American artist of folk and modern art, dies at 95
1997 - Bert Haanstra, Dutch filmmaker and director (Fanfare; Glass), dies at 81
2002 - Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford, British historian, dies at 96
50 Chechen rebels storm a Moscow theater, taking up to 700 people hostage during a sold-out performance of a popular musical. Over 120 ended up dying.