1914 – First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park in Chicago.
1941 – The Greek government and King George II evacuate Athens before the invading Wehrmacht.
1951 – American journalist William N. Oatis is arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia.
1993 – Eritreans vote overwhelmingly for independence from Ethiopia in a United Nations-monitored referendum.
