1327 - Teenager Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.
1411 - The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn, Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights (Prussia).
1713 - The Kalabalik or Tumult in Bendery results from the Ottoman sultan's order that his unwelcome guest, King Charles XII of Sweden, be seized.
1793 - French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
1835 - Slavery is abolished in Mauritius.
1861 - American Civil War: Texas secedes from the United States.
1865 - President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1908 - King Carlos I of Portugal and his son, Prince Luis Filipe are killed in Terreiro do Paco, Lisbon.
1918 - Russia adopts the Gregorian Calendar.
1920 - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police begins operations.
1946 - Trygve Lie of Norway is picked to be the first United Nations Secretary General.
1946 - The Parliament of Hungary abolishes the monarchy after nine centuries, and proclaims the Hungarian Republic.
1960 - Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
1974 - Kuala Lumpur is declared a Federal Territory.
1998 - Rear Admiral Lillian E. Fishburne becomes the first female African American to be promoted to rear admiral.
2001 - Putrajaya, the Malaysian administrative city, is declared a Federal Territory.
2005 - King Gyanendra of Nepal carries out a coup d'état to capture the democracy, becoming Chairman of the Councils of ministers.
Famous Birthdays
1663 - Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, nun
1687 - Johann Adam Birkenstock, composer and violinist
1796 - Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich, poet
1882 - Louis Stephen St. Laurent, Prime Minister of Canada
1894 - James P. Johnson, composer
1931 - Boris Yeltsin, 1st President of the Russian Federation
1939 - Joe Sample, pianist
1942 - Muna Wassef, actress and UN Goodwill ambassador
1956 - Exene Cervenka, musician
1965 - HSH Princess Stéphanie of Monaco
1969 - Brian Krause, actor
1971 - Michael C. Hall, actor
1979 - Juan Silveira dos Santos, footballer
1984 - Lee Thompson Young, actor
1987 - Giuseppe Rossi, footballer
1994 - Harry Styles, singer
1994 - Anna-Lena Friedsam, tennis player
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