432 - St Sixtus III begins his reign as Catholic Pope 1910 - Pioneering Dutch aviator Clement van Maasdijk gives a flying demonstration 1925 - Unemployment Insurance Act passed in Britain 1943 - Transport #58 departs with French Jews to Nazi Germany 1981 - Poland's Deputy Prime Minister Mieczyslaw Jagielski is fired 1983 - Brooks Robinson, Juan Marichal, George Kell and Walter Alston are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York 1987 - Battle between Iranian pilgrims and Saudi-Arabian troops, 402 killed 1991 - US Senate votes to allow women to fly combat aircraft 1992 - Thai Airways International Flight 311 crashes into a mountain north of Kathmandu, killing all 113 passengers and crew members on board the Airbus A310 2020 - Eurozone economic activity falls 11.9% for April-June with Spain the worst at -18.5%, its deepest in modern times More Historical Events »