1688 - The Glorious Revolution begins: William of Orange lands at Brixham.
1859 - The first modern revival of the Olympic Games takes place in Athens, Greece.
1889 - Brazil is declared a republic by Marechal Deodoro da Fonseca and Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
1920 - First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva.
1923 - The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter Inflation in the Weimar Republic.
1935 - Manuel L. Quezon is inaugurated as the second president of the Philippines.
1939 - In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.
1943 - Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps".
1945 - Venezuela joins the United Nations.
1969 - Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic "March Against Death".
1983 - Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is founded. Recognised only by Turkey.
1985 - The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.
1987 - In Braşov, Romania, workers rebel against the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu.
1988 - Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
1990 - The People's Republic of Bulgaria is disestablished and a new republican government is instituted.
2012 - Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new 7-members Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
Famous Birthdays:
459 - B'utz Aj Sak Chiik, King of Palenque (in Modern Maya)
1316 - King John I of France
1397 - Pope Nicholas V
1498 - Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France
1708 - William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1784 - Jerome Bonaparte, King of Westphalia or Westfalia
1852 - Tewfik Pasha, Khedive of Egypt
1859 - Christopher Hornsrud, Prime Minister of Norway
1891 - Erwin Rommel, field marshal, "The Desert Fox"
1895 - Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia
1931 - President Mwai Kibaki of Kenya
1945 - Anni-Frid Lyngstad, singer (ABBA)
1954 - Aleksander Kwaśniewski, former President of Poland
1977 - Peter Phillips, son of Princess Anne, The Princess Royal of the United Kingdom and 11th in line to the throne
1988 - Zena Grey, actress
1988 - B.o.B, rapper and producer
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