1683 – Purcell’s “Welcome to All the Pleasures” premieres in London
1714 – King Karel XII leaves Turkish captivity to return to Sweden
1918 – Polish forces attack Jewish community of Lemberg (Lvov)
1918 – Grand Duke Frederik II, the last Grand Duke of Baden, resigns
1922 – British Labour party elects Ramsay MacDonald as leader
1927 – 1st snowmobile patent granted to Carl Eliason (Sayner, Wisconsin)
1927 – Belgian government of Henri Jaspar falls
1960 – French National Meeting decide to build own nuclear weapons
1991 – NY Knicks pay Patrick Ewing a record $18.8 million for 2 yr extension
2017 – Ratko Mladic the “Butcher of Bosnia” is convicted of genocide and other atrocities during the Bosnian war and jailed for life in The Hague