1586 - Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe on return to England 1914 - Austria-Hungary decides against mediation and declares war on Serbia - first declaration of war of Word War I 1937 - Richard Moore scores 316 for Hampshire against Warwickshire 1944 - Adolf Hitler routes 4 division of South France to Normandy 1973 - France performs nuclear Test at Mururoa atoll, in the South Pacific 1977 - Roy Wilkins turns over NAACP leadership to Benjamin Hooks 1989 - Cards' Vince Coleman is caught stealing ends record streak at 50 1992 - Groundbreaking of Fla Marlins 7,500 seat spring training stadium 2013 - 39 people are killed after a bus veers off a bridge in Avellino Province, Italy 2018 - Carr Fire reaches Redding, California, with death toll at 5 having burnt 80,000 acres More Historical Events »