1431 – Joan of Arc’s first day of interrogation during her trial for heresy
1792 – US Congress passes Presidential Succession Act
1857 – US issues flying eagle cents
1864 – 1st US Catholic parish church for blacks dedicated, Baltimore
1934 – Nicaraguan patriot Augusto César Sandino and three others kidnapped and assassinated by the National Guard in Larreynaga
1945 – Dutch Archbishop of Utrecht Johannes de Jong calls for help with war casualties following the Nazi occupation of Netherlands from the allies
1972 – Richard Nixon becomes the first US President to visit China, normalizing relations between the countries in a meeting with Chinese leader Mao Zedong in Beijing
1983 – Donald Davis runs 1 mile backwards in 6 m 7.1 s
1989 – Pete Rose meets with Commissioner Ueberroth to discuss his gambling
2019 – The Lunar Library, a 30 million page digital library launched on board Israel’s Beresheet Lunar Lander, aiming to be stored on the Moon