1453 – Last naval battle in Byzantinehistory, as three Genoese galleys escorting a Byzantine transport fight their way through the huge Ottoman blockade fleet into the Golden Horn.
2007 - Johnson Space Center shooting: A man with a handgun barricades himself in the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, and kills a male hostage before killing himself.
2008 – Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300, becoming the first woman to win an Indy car race.