1145 – Bernardo elected Pope Eugene III
1861 – Fort Point, in San Francisco, California, completed and garrisoned (but has never fired cannon in anger)
1958 – Ice Dance Championship at Paris won by June Markham/Courtney Jones GRB
1967 – 1st anti-bootleg recording laws enacted
1979 – Paul Shirley (21) of Australia, sucked a lifesaver for 4 hrs 40 mins
1987 – ABC-TV begins broadcasting “Amerika” mini-series
1996 – American boxer Tommy Morrison announces he has contracted HIV
1999 – Abdullah Öcalan, leader of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party, widely recognized as terrorist organization), was arrested in Kenya.
2005 – YouTube, Internet site on which videos may be shared and viewed by others, is launched in the United States
2013 – Chelyabinsk meteor breaks up over Chelyabinsk, Russia, injuring over 1,200 people, with 26 to 33 times energy of Hiroshima bomb