1576 – Spanish troops occupy and plunder Maastricht
1911 – Norwegian Roald Amundsen sets out on a race to the South Pole
1973 – Mariette Hartley appears on “The Bob Newhart Show” in the episode “Have You Met Miss Dietz?”
1981 – Bomb attack on a synagogue in Antwerp, Belgium, leaves one person dead and injures 80
1986 – Tupolev-134 crashes in Southern Africa
1992 – David Houghton scores Zimbabwe’s first Test century (121 vs. India on debut)
2024 – Egypt is declared malaria-free by the World Health Organization, becoming the third country in the Eastern Mediterranean and the 44th worldwide
2025 – Demolition crews remove facade of the East Wing of the White House for construction of a new ballroom, despite initial announcement that the existing building would not be touched