607 - Pope Boniface III dies
764 - Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days.
1035 - King Cnut the Great, King of Denmark, England and Norway dies
1439 - Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.
1555 - The English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism.
1793 - Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined.
1905 - Norway holds a referendum in favour of monarchy over republic.
1918 - Austria becomes a republic.
1933 - Hugh Gray takes the first known photos of the Loch Ness Monster.
1941 - World War II: temperatures around Moscow drop to -12° C as the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city.
1948 - In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials, including General Hideki Tojo, to death for their roles in World War II.
1956 - Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia join the United Nations.
1968 - Equatorial Guinea joins the United Nations.
1971 - Vietnam War: as part of Vietnamization, US President Richard M. Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam.
1975 - The Comoros joins the United Nations.
1978 - Pope John Paul II takes possession of his Cathedral Church, the Basilica of St. John Lateran, as the Bishop of Rome.
1990 - Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch.
2011 - Silvio Berlusconi resigns as Prime Minister of Italy due, in large part, to the European sovereign debt crisis.
Famous Birthdays:
1547 - Claude of Valois, Princess - the second daughter of King Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici.
1790 - Letitia Christian Tyler, US First Lady
1881 - Maximilian von Weichs, field marshal
1911 - Buck Clayton, jazz trumpet player
1929 - Grace Kelly, actress and Princess consort of Monaco
1945 - Neil Young, singer and guitarist
1968 - Sharon Shannon, musician
1980 - Ryan Gosling, actor
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