161 - Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by his adoptive sons Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.
1814 - Emperor Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.
1862 - American Civil War: Union forces defeat Confederate troops at Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone.
1902 - Second Boer War: In the Battle of Tweebosch, a Boer commando led by Koos de la Rey inflicts the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war
1912 - Roald Amundsen announces that his expedition had reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911.
1936 - World War II (Prelude to): In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
1945 - World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen.
1965 - Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers are forcefully broken up in Selma, Alabama.
2007 - The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.
2009 - The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and two civilians, the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since The Troubles.
Famous Birthdays
189 - Publius Septimius Geta, Roman Emperor
1693 - Pope Clement XIII
1850 - Tomáš Masaryk, first President of Czechoslovakia
1886 - Virginia Pearson, silent film actress
1922 - Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, mathematician
1930 - Antony Armstrong-Jones,(Lord Snowdon), former husband of Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom.
1947 - Richard Lawson, actor
1961 - Mary Beth Evans, actress
1977 - Ronan O'Gara, rugby union footballer
1988 - Larry Asante, football player
2009 - HRH Prince Umberto of Savoy
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