1486 – King Ann VII of England marries Princess Elizabeth of York.
1535 – Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro builds Lima, the capital of Peru.
1591 – King Naresuan of Siam fights and kills Burmese Prince Minsit Sira alone. This day is still celebrated as Royal Thai Armed Forces Day in Thailand.
1701 – Frederick I is crowned King of Prussia.
1778 – Captain James Cook, the first European to discover the Awai Islands, named it the “Sandwich Islands”.
1788 – The first batch of 736 convicts from England arrived at Botany Bay, Australia.
1806 – The Cape Colony surrenders to Britain.
1824 – Sir Edward Barnes appointed Governor of British Ceylon.[1]
1871 – The North German Confederation and South German states unite to form the German Empire. Willem I was its first king.
1896 – First X-ray machine by H. L. Illustrated by Smith.
1911 – Eugene Ely lands his plane in San Francisco Bay Pennsylvania Dropped on the ship. It was the first aircraft to land on a ship.
1919 – World War I: The Paris Peace Conference begins in Versailles, France.
1929 – Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Union.
1941 – World War II: British forces begin the war in Italian East Africa.
1944 – World War II: Soviet forces retake Leningrad after a three-year siege by the Nazis.
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1960 – A plane crashes in a field in Virginia, USA, killing all 50 people on board.
1960 – Major Round Table Conference to decide Congo’s future held in Belgium.
1969 – A US airliner crashes into Santa Monica Bay, killing 38.
1974 – The Yom Kippur War ends after a peace treaty is signed between Israel and Egypt.
1976 – Lebanese Christian drunkards kill at least 1,000 in Beirut quarantine.
1977 – Prime Minister of Yugoslavia Jemal Bjedic, his wife, and six others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1977 – 83 people are killed when a bridge collapses in the Sydney suburb of Granville, Australia, sending a train over it.
1993 – Martin Luther King Day is officially observed in all 50 US states.
1995 – 17,000-year-old cave paintings discovered in southern France.
1997 – Borg Ausland became the first person to cross Antarctica unassisted.
2002 – The civil war in Sierra Leone is declared over.
2003 – A forest fire in Australia’s capital Canberra kills 4 and destroys 500 homes.
2005 – The Airbus A380, the world’s largest jet airliner, is launched in Toulouse, France.
2007 – Cyclone Kirill hits 20 countries in Western Europe, killing a total of 44 people, including 14 in the United Kingdom and 13 in Germany.
1892 – Oliver Hardy, American comedian (d. 1957)
1921 – Nambu Ochiro, Spanish-American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2015)
1927 – S. Balachander, Tamil Nadu actor, director, producer, singer, veena musician (d. 1990)
1936 – Joan Rudd, Kenyan environmentalist, filmmaker (d. 2006)
1952 – Veerappan, Tamil Nadu sandalwood smuggler (d. 2004)
1955 – Kevin Costner, American actor, director, and producer
1955 – Erik Solheim, Norwegian politician
1969 – Dave Bautista, American veteran and actor
1971 – Amy Burger, American astronomer
1971 – Pep Guardiola, Spanish footballer
1971 – Binyawanga Waiyina, Kenyan writer and journalist
1972 – Vinod Kambli, Indian rower
1980 – Jason Segel, American actor
1936 – Rudyard Kipling, Nobel Prize-winning English author (b. 1865)
1936 – John Woodroffe, British conservative (b. 1865)
1955 – Sadat Hasan Manto, Pakistani writer (b. 1912)
1963 – p. Jeevanandam, Tamil Nadu Commonwealth Party leader (b. 1906)
1982 – Wang Xianpan, Chinese historian and anthropologist (b. 1899)
1995 – Adolphe Boutenant, Nobel Prize-winning German chemist (b. 1903)
1996 – N. D. Rama Rao, South Indian actor, director, producer, 10th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (b. 1923)
2003 – Harivansarai Bachchan, Indian poet and novelist (b. 1907)
2005 – S. M. Karmegam, Sri Lankan writer (b. 1939)
2006 – Y. Sachithanandasivam, Eelam painter, writer, short film director, writer (b. 1940)
2016 – The. Ch. Chinnathurai, Judge of the High Court of Singapore (b. 1930)
2018 – Kasinath, South Indian Kannada actor, director (b. 1951)