1759 - British capture Fort Niagara from French (7 Years' War) 1900 - Gloucestershire captain Gilbert Jessop hits his second century (139 in 95 minutes) before lunch in same County Cricket match (104 previous day); Yorkshire wins by 40 runs 1908 - Ajinomoto Co. is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers a key ingredient in Konbu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), patents a process for manufacturing it. 1914 - Serbia meets the deadlines of Austria-Hungary's ultimatum and gives a conciliatory reply, though Serbia is mobilizing 1973 - George Harrison pays £1,000,000 tax on his Bangladesh concert and album 1978 - John Lydon forms rock group Public Ltd Image 1985 - USSR performs nuclear Test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan 1990 - Nadezhda Ryashkina of USSR sets 10K walk woman's record (41:56.23) 2014 - Both Israel and Hamas review US Secretary of State John Kerry's proposal for an immediate ceasefire and meetings in Cairo 2018 - Liquid lake found on Mars under its South Pole by European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter reported in "Science" More Historical Events »