842 – Charles II and Louis the German sign The Oaths of Strasbourg, a pact uniting their armies in fights against their older brother Lothar
1670 – Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I chases Jews out of Vienna
1804 – Jean Victor Marie Moreau, French general who plotted to overthrow Napoleon in the Pichegru Conspiracy, arrested, and exiled to the United States
1918 – Harold R. Atteridge and Sigmund Romberg’s musical “Sinbad”, starring Al Jolson, opens at the Winter Garden Theatre, NYC; runs for 164 performances
1945 – Peru, Paraguay, Chile and Ecuador joins UN
1949 – 1st session of Knesset (Jerusalem Israel)
1956 – Verhoeven, Nauta and De King/Wijnhout win Dutch 11 city skate
1959 – $3.6 million heroin seizure in NYC
1984 – Canadian speed skater Gaétan Boucher takes out the 1,000m gold medal at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics; also wins 1,500m; narrowly beats Soviet skater Sergey Khlebnikov in both events
1989 – World’s 1st satellite Skyphone opens