1792 – Opening of 1st legislative assembly of Lower Canada in Quebec city
1914 – Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv by Turkish authorities
1924 – 1st US diesel electric locomotive enters service, Bronx, NY
1957 – The largest trade in NHL history at the time in terms of quantity; Chicago Black Hawks move Nick Mickoski, Jack McIntyre, Bob Bailey and Hec Lalonde to Detroit Red Wings for Earl Reibel, Billy Dea, Bill Dineen and Lorne Ferguson
1978 – OPEC raises oil prices by 18% and agrees on a 14.5% petroleum price increase for 1979, to be implemented quarterly
1988 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1992 – Gen Suwa finds tooth of 4.4 million year old Australopithecus ramidus
2005 – Anti-WTO protesters riot in Wan Chai, Hong Kong
2012 – 17 people are killed and 70 are injured by a blast in a market in the Khyber Agency, Pakistan
2015 – Libyan warring political factions sign a UN-brokered deal to form a unified government