1066 - Harold Godwinson is crowned King of England.
1205 - Philip of Swabia becomes King of the Romans.
1540 - King Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves.
1690 - Joseph, son of Emperor Leopold I, becomes King of the Romans.
1781 - In the Battle of Jersey, the British defeat the last attempt by France to invade Jersey.
1907 - Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare centre for working class children in Rome, Italy.
1912 - New Mexico is admitted as the 47th US state.
1929 - Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta, India to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people.
1941 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms speech in the State of the Union address.
1947 - Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world.
1967 - Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta.
1978 - The Crown of St. Stephen (also known as the Holy Crown of Hungary) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held after World War II.
2005 - American Civil Rights Movement: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect in the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers.
Famous Birthdays:
1367 - King Richard II of England
1412 - Joan of Arc, military figure and Roman Catholic Saint
1655 - Empress Eleonore-Magdalena of Neuburg of the Holy Roman Empire
1803 - Henri Herz, pianist, composer
1812 - Melchora Aquino, revolutionary figure
1870 - Gustav Bauer, Chancellor of Germany
1912 - Danny Thomas, actor
1934 - Sylvia Syms, actress
1935 - Her Majesty Queen Margarita Gomez-Acebo y Cejuela, consort of Tsar Simeon II of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and Bulgaria
1944 - Bonnie Franklin, actress
1953 - Malcolm Young, guitarist
1964 - Mark O'Toole, musician
1986 - Alex Turner, musician
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