1943 – Holocaust:
Nazis liquidate Janowska
concentration camp in Lemberg (Lviv), western
Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a
failed uprising and mass escape attempt.
1985 – Pennzoil wins a $10.53 billion
USD judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States,
stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an
unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.
1988 – Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and
Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic publicly declares that
Serbia is under
attack from Albanian separatists in
Kosovo as well as
internal treachery within Yugoslavia and
a foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.
1994 – In Great Britain, the first National Lottery draw is
held. A £1 ticket gave a one-in-14-million chance of
correctly guessing the winning six out of 49 numbers.
1997 – In Des Moines,
Iowa, Bobbi McCaughey
gives birth to septuplets in
the second known case where all seven babies were born
alive. They would go on to become the first set of
septuplets to survive infancy.