546 - Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoths under king Totila plunder the city, by bribing the Byzantine garrison.
920 - Romanos I is crowned co-emperor of the underage Emperor Constantine VII.
942 - Assassination of William I of Normandy.
1538 - Pope Paul III excommunicates King Henry VIII of England.
1577 - Francis Drake sails from Plymouth, England, on a secret mission to explore the Pacific Coast of the Americas for English Queen Elizabeth I.
1600 - Marriage of Henry IV of France and Marie de' Medici.
1718 - Great Britain declares war on Spain.
1812 - War of 1812: U.S. forces attack a friendly Lenape village in the Battle of the Mississinewa.
1903 - The Wright Brothers make their first powered and heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
1907 - Ugyen Wangchuck is crowned first King of Bhutan
1941 - World War II: Japanese forces land in Northern Borneo.
1944 - World War II: Battle of the Bulge – Malmedy massacre – American 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion POWs are shot by Waffen-SS Kampfgruppe Peiper.
1967 - Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt disappears while swimming near Portsea, Victoria and is presumed drowned.
1969 - The SALT I talks begin.
1983 - Provisional IRA members detonate a car bomb at Harrods Department Store in London. Three police officers and three civilians are killed.
1989 - The first episode of television series The Simpsons, "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", airs in the United States.
2002 - Second Congo War: The Congolese parties of the Inter Congolese Dialogue sign a peace accord which makes provision for transitional governance and legislative and presidential elections within two years.
2010 - Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire. This act became the catalyst for the Tunisian Revolution and the wider Arab Spring.
Famous Birthdays:
1267 - Emperor Go-Uda of Japan
1734 - Maria I of Portugal, Queen of Portugal, Brazil, and the Algarves.
1874 - William Lyon Mackenzie King, 10th Prime Minister of Canada
1887 - Empress Hermine Reuss of Germany, second consort of Emperor Wilhelm II of German
1935 - George Lindsey, actor
1936 - His Holiness Pope Francis
1945 - Jacqueline Wilson, author
1972 - Laurie Holden, actress
1986 - Vanessa Zima, actress
2007 - James, Viscount Severn, son of HRH Prince Edward the Earl of Wessex and Sophie, Countess of Wessex. ninth in the line to the throne of the United Kingdom and commonwealth
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