138 - The Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor.
1570 - Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England.
1843 - Provisional Cession of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands established by Lord George Paulet.
1856 - A Peace conference opened in Paris after Crimean War.
1870 - Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress.
1921 - Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, is occupied by Bolshevist Russia.
1932 - Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, which allows him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident.
1945 - World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.
1947 - The State of Prussia ceases to exist.
1956 - In his speech On the Personality Cult and its Consequences Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union denounces the cult of personality of Joseph Stalin.
1968 - Vietnam War: 135 unarmed citizens of Ha My village in South Vietnam's Quảng Nam Province are killed and buried en masse by South Korean troops in what would come to be known as the Ha My massacre.
1991 - The Warsaw Pact is declared disbanded.
1992 - Khojaly massacre: about 613 civilians are killed by Armenian armed forces during the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.
Famous Birthdays
1398 - Emperor Xuande of China
1643 - Ahmed II, Ottoman Sultan
1707 - Carlo Goldoni, writer
1883 - Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, longest-lived Princess of the British Royal Family and the last surviving grandchild of Queen Victoria.
1885 - Princess Alice of Battenberg, the mother of HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and mother-in-law of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
1920 - Sun Myung Moon, founder of Unification Church
1943 - George Harrison, singer and guitarist
1961 - Chris Pitman, keyboardist
1976 - Rashida Jones, actress
1986 - Justin Berfield, actor
1987 - Adrián López Rodríguez, footballer
1993 - Christina Kirkman, American actress
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