On this day in 1935, the first night game in Major League Baseball history was played in Cincinnati, Ohio.
On this day in 1956, the first Eurovision Song Contest was held in Lugano, Switzerland.
On this day in 1957, an angry crowd broke into and ransacked the US Embassy in Taipei in protest of the killing of Taiwanese citizen Liu Tzu-jan by an American soldier for allegedly intruding into the soldier's house. News that a US court martial had acquitted the American soldier of all charges triggered the riot.
On this day in 1976, the Judgment of Paris took place in France, launching California as a worldwide force in the production of quality wine.
And on this day in 1999, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicted Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.