1672 – King Charles II of England enacts the Declaration of Indulgence in an unsuccessful attempt to extend religious liberty to Protestant nonconformists and Roman Catholics in his realms
1964 – USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
1981 – Suriname failed coup under sgt-mjr Wilfred Hawker
1985 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1997 – France beats Scotland, 47-20 at Parc des Princes, Paris to claim an 11th outright Five Nations Rugby Championship and 5th Triple Crown; fly-half Christophe Lamaison lands 6 penalties and 3 conversions
2013 – Li Keqiang assumes office as the 7th Premier of the People’s Republic of China
2017 – French fashion house Givenchy appoints it first female designer, Englishwoman Clare Waight Keller
2024 – Former US VP Mike Pence says “he cannot in good conscience” endorse Donald Trump for President in an interview on Fox News