1492 – Muhammad XII, the last Emir of Granada, surrenders his city to Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabel I of Castile, ending both the Reconquista and centuries of Muslim rule in the Iberian peninsula
1757 – British troops occupy Calcutta India
1843 – Richard Wagner’s opera “The Flying Dutchman” premieres in Dresden, Germany
1900 – US Secretary of State John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China
1903 – US President Theodore Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola, Mississippi, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black
1967 – 33rd Sugar Bowl: #6 Alabama beats #3 Nebraska, 34-7
1984 – 50th Orange Bowl: #5 Miami (FL) beats #1 Nebraska, 31-30
1984 – 13th Fiesta Bowl: #14 Ohio State beats #15 Pittsburgh, 28-23
1987 – Troops of Chadian President Hissène Habré conquer the Fada oasis
2014 – 30 people are killed after a bus plunges off a cliff and falls 400 ft in Malshej Ghat, India