1415 – John IV van Bourgondy becomes Duke of Brabant and Limburg
1616 – Dutch East India Company ship “The Eendracht” discovers Dirk-Hartog Island, Australia
1875 – The first performance of the Piano Concerto No. 1 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is given in Boston, Massachusetts with Hans von Bülow as soloist
1918 – Canadian steamship “Princess Sophia” hits a reef off Alaska, 398 die
1937 – Belgian government of Zealand falls due to black money
1945 – Japanese surrender Taiwan to General Chiang Kai-shek
1968 – Czech gymnast Věra Čáslavská wins the uneven bars and vault gold medals at the Mexico City Olympics; her 6th and 7th career gold medals and her 4th at these Games
1981 – 200,000 demonstrate in Brussel against cruise missile
1985 – Kosmos 1700 communications satellite placed in geostationary orbit
2020 – Chile overwhelmingly votes to scrap their constitution, drafted during dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet