Lucas gusher at the Spindletop oil field
- 236 – Pope Fabian, who is said to have been chosen by the Holy Spirit by having a dove land on his head, began his papacy.
- 1645 – William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury and a fervent supporter of King Charles I, was beheaded in the midst of the English Civil War.
- 1901 – The first great gusher of the Texas Oil Boom was discovered in the Spindletop oil field near Beaumont, Texas, US.
- 1941 – Greco-Italian War: The Greek army captured the strategically important Klisura Pass in Albania.
- 1993 – The Braer Storm, the strongest extratropical cyclone ever recorded in the North Atlantic, reached its peak intensity.
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