1384 - Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.
1793 - Marie Antoinette, widow of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
1834 - Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London burns to the ground.
1905 - The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
1934 - Chinese Communists begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman.
1939 - World War II: First attack on British territory by the German Luftwaffe.
1940 - Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
1946 - Nuremberg Trials: Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders of the Main Trial.
1951 - The first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated in Rawalpindi.
1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis between the United States, and Cuba and the USSR, begins.
1978 - Karol Wojtyla is elected Pope John Paul II after the October 1978 Papal conclave, the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.
1984 - Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1998 - Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet is arrested in London on a warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder charges.
Famous Birthdays:
1430 - King James II of Scotland
1751 - Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt, Queen of Prussia
1841 - Itō Hirobumi, 1st Prime Minister of Japan
1854 - Oscar Wilde, author, poet, and playwright
1886 - David Ben-Gurion, 1st Prime Minister of Israel
1890 - Michael Collins, politician
1928 - Mary Daly, feminist philosopher and theologian
1946 - Suzanne Somers, actress
1967 - Davina McCall, television presenter
1975 - Kellie Martin, actress
1991 - John and Edward Grimes, singers
2003 - HRH Princess Kritika of Nepal, daughter of HRH The Crown Prince Paras and HRH The Crown Princess Himani of Nepal. She is a granddaughter of His Majesty King Gyanendra of Nepal.
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