1636 - Battle at Wittstock, Brandenburg: Sweden beat Ferdinand III 1824 - Mexico becomes a republic 1921 - League of Nations refuses to assist starving Russians 1959 - Dmitri Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No. 1 premieres at the Large Hall of the Leningrad Conservatory with the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra 1964 - LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Stardust CC; Mary Mills shoots final round 69 to win first of her 2 LPGA C'ships, 2 strokes ahead of defending champion Mickey Wright 1971 - USSR performs underground nuclear test 2001 - Siberia Airlines Flight 1812: a Sibir Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian S-200 missile. 78 people are killed. 2004 - SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight 2009 - Senior Players Championship Men's Golf, Baltimore CC: Jay Haas wins his third and final Champions Tour major title by 1 stroke from Tom Watson 2017 - Chinese pianist Lang Lang plays Carneige Hall one-handed due to injury with 14 year-old Maxim Lando playing his left hand for Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" More Historical Events »