1659 – Peace of the Pyrenees is signed between France and Spain
1734 – John Zenger, arrested for libel against NY colonial governor; later acquitted
1958 – KAII TV channel 7 in Wailuku, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1962 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh, Semipalitinsk USSR
1968 – Alexandros Panagoulis is condemned to death for attempting to assassinate Greek dictator George Papadopoulos
1974 – Aliança Operário-Camponesa (Worker-Peasant Alliance) founded in Portugal as a front of PCP(m-l).
1979 – Ayatollah Khomeini frees most black and female US hostages
1997 – Mario Lemieux enters NHL Hall of Fame
2003 – Britney Spears, at 21 years old, becomes the youngest singer to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
2008 – “Twilight”, based on the book by Stephenie Meyer, directed by Catherine Hardwicke, starring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, premieres in Los Angeles